Colorado’s proposition 127, just spreading the word

Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management

I know the vast majority of you don’t live in Colorado, but I truly believe that if this passes it will be a domino effect across the country eventually over our lifetimes.

So what prop 127 is, is a ballot initiative to ban Mountain Lion, Bobcat, and Lynx hunting in Colorado. Nvm that Lynx are already a federally protected species in the Lower 48, they just added them to tug more on the heartstrings of city dwellers who don’t know shite.

Colorado’s Cat population is thriving, they are reproducing at rates they haven’t in years of recording their populations. That is even with hunting.

This initiative got enough signatures to put it on the general ballot on Nov 5th. I know all of you can’t vote on it, but if they win they will not stop with big Cats. There is already talk about “why are we hunting the State’s animal, Bighorn Sheep?” That’s an example of their goal. They’ll go for that down the line, furbearers such as Beavers are also on the chopping block. Denver is trying to ban the sale of leather from furbearers as well.

Lion hunting, whether you do it or not, brings in thousands if not more money to small mountain towns. Gas, lodging, meals, paying the guides, processing etc. If they ban it, the CPW will still resort to culling a couple hundred of Lions every year, toss their bodies in the disposal and those towns lose out on all that money.

Regardless of that, it’s an attack on hunting culture in general. These people don’t understand our way of life and our connection to the land which has gone back generations. We love these animals, and know that management via hunting based on our State Wildlife Departments’ proposals (the professionals) is how we manage them.

I’m voting no obviously, but I want to do more than that by spreading the word. Donate if you can or want to, I won’t judge if you don’t. I get it, you’re nonresidents who most likely won’t ever come to Colorado to hunt a Mountain Lion, but it does go deeper than that. This is the beginning of their goal, to ban hunting overall. They won’t stop here, if they win, it will give them more confidence to go after sheep, moose, mountain goats, bears, and eventually deer and elk. If you don’t donate, at least text anyone you know in Colorado to make sure they know about it and are educated. We lost the Wolf vote because of laziness and lack of education. It won’t happen again.

Thanks for reading Baws.