article on prop 127

[lanochow]

Some notes on 127 that I see a lot of confusion around: 

• Trophy hunting is already illegal in Colorado. Please research this. There seems to be confusion on what trophy hunting means. Trophy hunting means killing an animal and not taking the meat - just taking the "trophy" for a mount... 
  
• Mountain Lions will still be killed if the ban passes but they will be killed by tax funded private entities who will discard of the animal instead of hunters who pay for the tags and use the harvested resources.
  
• Our Elk and deer populations are declining with their number one predator being mountain lions.
  
• Mountain lion populations are growing
  
• CPW, the biologists we pay to manage wildlife conservation has stated that regulated hunting is necessary to maintain stable populations of all species.
  
• This proposition 127 comes from an anti-hunting group that would seek to have mountain lions killed by privitization who primarily kill and dump the carcasses. 
  

By voting no on 127 you help protect all CO species by giving biologists all necessary tools for conservation.