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They will get their 125,000 signatures outside the coffee shops in downtown Denver within a couple of weeks. Won't see the petitions anywhere else.

CO is no longer CO. CO is now the eastern most county of CA and it displays all the CA idiocy. When I grew up in CO lions were not classified as game animals. We chàsed and shot a lot of cattle/sheep killing lions. Wish I had kept a couple of skins. Hell I am surprised they arent trying to shut down bear hunting as well

Don't worry; that'll be next on their list.

L.W.

When they get it, the deer population will drop. One lion, one deer a week is what I've heard. If a female has three cubs you got four deer killers killing a deer a week and so on, and so on. Won't take long.

We might sway someone to our point of view by arguing that lions, bears, wolves, etc will lose their fear of humans and kill an occasional hiker or camper, but the more important thing is that uncontrolled large predators will drastically reduce big game populations. Big game populations that are already threatened by habitat loss and other human activities, as well as weather and disease. We need to manage large predators like we manage other wildlife. Public referendums should not be a part of this.

In Colorado Ski areas are way more important than wild life, that's what brought all Liberals from the east and west coasts, the big problem they came and stayed. that's why I left Colorado and moved to the what used to be the free state of Texas, now we Northern Mexico

Back in the 90's, the 'good people' of Denver/Boulder shut down the spring bear hunt and leg-hold trapping, all in one election.

At the time, I was discussing this with a Wildlife Officer, and he said we are going to lose at the ballot box. He said that only 30% of the licensed hunters in Colorado are even registered to vote! We have to vote, each and every election, even (especially) for the School Boards.

The Left/Communists/Democrats, but I repeat myself, always target the low participation hunts, such as Lions or trapping. They know they can't get Elk hunting banned (yet), so they go after the 'easy' targets.

And they are making their way into Wyoming. Bout every time a house sells greenies are the ones buying.

Not shocking. It’s been happening in WA. They stopped the hounds, regulated trapping about to death, then did away with spring bear. I’d expect lion to be fully off limits before long.

Hunting and fishing need to be codified into unassailable rights.

The problem with that is it would take major court cases and a long time getting certain species off protected lists.

Easy enough for them to say " Well, you can hunt ..................rabbits...............and fish.......................for carp, but we're protecting the noble elk and cutthroat trout"


Someone mentioned it up above. Wildlife/Fisheries biology should not be run by petition of the people.

That's a feature not a bug. The less deer there are the fewer deer hunters will be able to kill. The same goes for livestock. It's the twisted backwards logic of liberals.

What many fail to understand is, destruction of game herds is part of the agenda. It has been obvious since the wolves were introduced into Idaho a few years ago.

Liberals equate elimination of hunting culture to be a needed component of elimination of gun culture.

1000% that's what is going on.

Ask the lazy grifter Buzz Hettick at the great hunters' rights group BHA how many of their millions they will donate to help sportsmen in Colorado. Lol

Im hearing from friends in Washington they want to greatly reduce hunting tags and want to go a draw only for all hunting tags now . They already shut down spring bear

no. They want to go back to 400 years ago before the white man came to America and end all hunting. They want predators to mange wildlife populations and ban all hunting

It was just 2 (?) years ago that wolf reintroduction passed by referendum.

The overpopulation will be a puurrr-fect reason to close deer hunting and public lands to protect the widdou bitty kitties. The little kitties need deer to feed on; we humans don't.

A mountain lion tag is the only big game tag I could get this year here in NV. Las Vegas gobbles up most of the resident draw, and we rural residents don't get much. The Vegas hunters wonder why they're not real popular in Ely, Elko, Winnemucca...

We have a group of Kalipornya transplants called Friends of The Black Rock who have convinced Congress to declare vast expanses of NV as "wilderness study areas" to protect feral horses. I can no longer drive legally to anywhere close to where I have hunted since I was 7; I'm 76 now. It's to protect the [bleep] feral horses and burros. They're greatly responsible for destroying our sagehen population.

The handwriting was on the wall in 2011 when CO Division of Wildlife and the Division of Parks were merged as a "cost savings" measure. In reality, it let the tree huggers in the door of game management.

Gov. signs merger bill (2011)

On June 6, Governor Hickenlooper signed into law the bill to merge the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the Division of Parks. The combined agency is the Division of Parks and Wildlife. The merger is to become effective on July 1.

https://coloradowildlife.org/gov-signs-merger-bill-2/