Colorado Ballot Measure To Ban Big Cat Hunting Raises Clashing Conservation Concerns
Colorado voters will decide this fall whether to ban the hunting of bobcats and mountain lions. The secretary of state’s office confirmed wednesday that backers turned in. Initiative 91 aims to ban the intentional killing, wounding, pursuing, or entrapping of a mountain lion, bobcat, or lynx, as well as the discharge or release of any deadly weapon. A ballot initiative that seeks to prohibit the hunting of lynx, mountain lions and bobcats has received enough signatures to qualify for the november ballot, the secretary of. Efforts to ban wild cat hunting in colorado have failed in recent years in the state legislature and have not gained traction with the colorado parks and wildlife commission.
Denver (kdvr) — a proposed ballot measure would prohibit the hunting of mountain lions, lynx and bobcats. It would allow for the killing of these animals if they. Proposition 127 would ban the hunting and trapping of bobcats and mountain lions, practices which have been regulated in the state for generations. Hunting lynx in colorado is.