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Although
the Arizona Game and Fish Commission has received approximately $92.7 million in
Heritage Fund monies over the past 10 years, it has not yet developed
administrative rules or other formal criteria to govern how it spends most of
these monies. The only rules currently in place govern grants awarded to
outside parties, which comprise only about 8 percent of Heritage Fund monies.
Without similar criteria for monies spent internally, it is difficult to
determine whether some expenditures are appropriate and are the best use of
monies. For example, the Department spent $225,000 sponsoring a television
series featuring animals, plants, people, and geology of the Sonoran Desert.
The monies spent on the series were statutorily designated to identify,
inventory, protect, monitor, acquire, and manage sensitive habitat, and it is
questionable whether the series fit these parameters.
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