Not sure how they do it in NY but in Ohio no General Fund money goes to the Division of Wildlife and no Dow goes into the General Fund. All the DoW money is from license sales, fines, etc. Because of the States budget problems all agencies were ordered to trim their budgets by X% including DoW. My local Game Warden said the money would be saved by doing less stocking and buying less land. The money saved will just go into some type of savings account until the Gov gives the OK to spend it.