11/04/2024
Not a Colorado Voter?
We have followers near and far. If you live outside of Colorado please contact friends and family and anyone else you do know in Colorado and help educate them on this issue.
A critical issue likely affecting the future of wildlife management in Colorado is on your ballot as Proposition 127, proposing a ban on mountain lion and bobcat hunting.
Wild cats always elicit an emotional reaction and after looking at the proposition, your first inclination may be to vote yes. I want you to be aware that the passing of this proposition will have much more far-reaching consequences for our state’s ecosystem and hunting traditions.
Proponents of this proposition are leveraging disinformation, the misleading and emotional use of the term “trophy hunting” (which is already illegal btw), and a general public that is largely uneducated about how wildlife management works and is regulated in Colorado, to once again take the management of our wildlife species (remember the voter-forced Wolf reintroduction?) out of the hands of the paid experts of our state wildlife agency, Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
If there’s anything I’ve learned while serving multiple terms on CPW’s Sportsperson’s Roundtable, it would be that any decision CPW makes is never as simple as it appears, and they always use the best available science and data while being stewards for some of our most valued and valuable resources. Taking away management tools for managing wildlife should not be a ballot box issue.
To better understand the implications of this proposition and why it’s essential to be fully educated before casting your vote, I encourage you to read the informative article linked in our bio.
It outlines the potential impacts of the ban and why we believe it’s crucial to defeat it for continued responsible future wildlife management
