Minnesota constitutional amendment would increase funding for conservation (5/3/2002)

Minnesota will join Missouri and Arkansas as the only states with constitutionally secured funding sources for conservation if legislators approve an amendment to the state constitution to dedicate a percentage of existing sales tax to conservation.

The Minnesota legislature is debating a proposed constitutional amendment to annually dedicate 3/16 of one percent of the existing sales tax for conservation purposes. This would provide at least $52 million more per year for hunting and fishing habitat. That is an increase of almost two-thirds of the state wildlife agency’s total revenue in 2000, which was $87.9 million according to the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation’s Fish and Wildlife Agency Funding Study.

Minnesota sportsmen, the Game and Fish Coalition and the candidates for governor have expressed support for this bill.

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