Preserving wildlife and critical habitat is complicated and expensive business, especially in Colorado.

As migration of human population grows, the business of preserving and managing fish and wildlife populations and natural habitats, in the mountains and on the Great Plains, becomes an increasingly complicated and cost-consuming task. It involves managing diminishing capital along with the supply and demand strains on parks assets and populations of wildlife species and fish.

Businesses set prices within confines of market demand and the need to increase or reduce consumption. If widgets are taking over the warehouse in a market environment of low demand, lower the price and more are likely to sell. If doohickeys are popular and scarce, control the inventory by raising the price.

A price is used as a valve that increases or reduces the flow of services, commodities or goods.

Read more at The Colorado Springs Gazette.