{"id":3781,"date":"2022-05-03T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:52:13","slug":"co-senate-passes-bill-to-fund-wildlife-highway-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/co-senate-passes-bill-to-fund-wildlife-highway-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"CO Senate Passes Bill to fund Wildlife Highway Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>On May 3, the Colorado Senate passed the bill to provide $5 million in funding for wildlife highway crossing projects on areas of roads that experience high rates of wildlife -motor vehicle collisions. In short, the Safe Crossings for Colorado Wildlife and Motorists bill (SB 22-151) would set up a &#8220;Colorado Wildlife Safe Passages Fund&#8221; with a $5 million appropriation. A very good start. The Senate co-sponsors are Senators Danielson and Story. the House co-sponsors are Representatives McCluskie and Will. CWF strongly supports the bill. Next step is the Colorado House.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the bill text: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2022A\/bills\/2022a_151_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Crossings bill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3, the Colorado Senate passed the bill to provide $5 million in funding for wildlife highway crossing projects on areas of roads that experience high rates of wildlife -motor vehicle collisions. In short, the Safe Crossings for Colorado Wildlife and Motorists bill (SB 22-151) would set up a &#8220;Colorado Wildlife Safe Passages Fund&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}