Relating to natural resources; modifying the provision providing for livestock owner compensation for livestock destroyed by gray (timber) wolves, elimination the limit per animal and modifying the recommendation requirement; requiring game and fish fund oversight committees to make recommendations to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for outcome goals from expenditures from the fund and the commissioner to report in the annual report to the legislature on the goals and on a summary and comments of committee reviews; imposing a criminal penalty for violation of game and fish laws governing gray wolves; increasing hunting and fishing license fees; providing for the management of gray wolves; authorizing the use of guard animals to harass, repel or destroy wolves to protect livestock, domestic animals or pets and destruction without a permit of wolves in defense of human life, livestock, guard animals or domestic animals, requiring reporting of destruction to a conservation officer; authorizing the harassment of gray wolves under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner to investigate reported gray wolf takings, to produce monthly reports of investigative activities and to notify county extension agents, requiring extension agents to recommend cost conscious livestock best management practices and nonlethal wolf depredation controls needed to prevent future wolf depredation; authorizing the taking of gray wolves to protect property in the agriculture zone (zone B); prohibiting an open season for gray wolves for a certain number of years after delisting as an endangered species; prohibiting the release of wolf-dog hybrids and requiring a permit from the commissioner for the release of captive gray wolves; prohibiting violation of federal laws relating to wolves; requiring the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture to adopt a gray wolf management plan; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to provide a gray wolf control training program for certified predator controllers participating in gray wolf control and to open a predator control area for gray wolves in zones A and B under certain conditions, restrictions, defining zone A and zone B; increasing commissioner predator control payments for wolves; authorizing the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture to develop a cooperative agreement for gray wolf control activities with the federal department of agriculture; modifying the authorized use of lighted fishing lures; requiring the commissioner of revenue in depositing revenue from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets to credit a certain percentage to the game and fish fund for activities to improve or enhance fish and wildlife resources and certain percentages to the natural resources fund for state parks and for natural resource purposes as a supplement to traditional sources of funding, requiring land acquired with money deposited in the game and fish fund to be open to public hunting and fishing during the open season and a certain percentage of money deposited for improvement, enhancement or protection of fish and wildlife resources to be allocated for field operations; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to report to the legislature by a certain date on appropriations needed to accomplish the gray wolf management plan; specifying certain phrase change instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating money to the commissioner for fish and wildlife management, for expansion of the walleye stocking program, for enforcement of natural resources laws, for game and fish projects on public and private lands, for state park and recreation area and trail operations, for a grant to the metropolitan council for metropolitan area regional parks and trails maintenance and operations, for trail grants to local government units and for grants to the Minnesota zoological garden, to the city of St. Paul for the Como zoo and conservatory and to the city of Duluth for the Duluth zoo (Ch. 463, 2000)