The Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund, an issue committee formed to push the ballot measure’s passage, has raised more than $1.7 million in the past two years. It has spent most of that haul and had only about $19,000 heading into the campaign’s final stretch.
One donor, Richard Pritzlaff, has given more than $254,000 to the issue committee alone. He’s the president of the Biophilia Foundation, which operates out of New Mexico and Maryland. The foundation’s website says the nonprofit is “premised on the belief that only private landowners’ efforts to restore and protect natural resources, especially wildlife habitat, will recover the living resources of the degraded lands and watersheds of our country.”
Pritzlaff’s LinkedIn page says he serves as a board member for the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund.
Timothy Ferriss, an entrepreneur and media personality who lives in Texas, has donated about $122,000 to the committee.
California’s Tides Center, which supports progressive causes, donated $381,000 to the campaign.
Others involved in the effort to pass Proposition 114 include the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Resources Defense Council, Rocky Mountain Wild and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums has given the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund $100,000, campaign finance records show.