Among the more than two dozen bills contemplated for Thursday's special session of the Colorado General Assembly is a proposal to pause funding for the wolf reintroduction program run by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The money — $264,268 — would be shifted to pay for the health insurance accountability enterprise to help cover subsidies for people on the individual market to purchase health insurance through the exchange, as well as for several other purposes.

The sponsor of the bill is Sen. Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, who chairs the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Robert is a critic of the program that has resulted in 25 wolves being brought to Colorado.

Those wolves have slaughtered dozens of livestock over the past year: cattle, calves, sheep and working dogs — in Rob

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