ACTION ALERT: CPW Commission vote on fur ban

[bayoublaster7527]

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission at March 4, 5 meeting to vote on Center for Biological Diversity petition to eliminate sales of fur statewide. Basically a repeat of the failed voter referendum in Denver during the November 2024 election.

Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management is trying to rally Colorado sportsmen and women to defeat this petition. Email the commission and/or attend the commission meeting in-person if able. Sign up to provide in person of virtual comment against the fur ban petition.

I saw HOWL, RMEF, BHA, and RMBS all have action alerts out to members. Maybe more. Spread the word.

Colorado Commercial Fur Ban - Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management

Colorado Commercial Fur Ban Call to Action: Defend Science-based Mildlife Management in Colorado Outside activist organizations are pressuring the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission to bypass science, ignore voters, and impose a commercial fur ban that Colorado has already rejected. A...

savethehuntcolorado.com

 

[Gila]

Howl sent me an email alert…action taken!

 

[CoMulies]

This should be easy.. this BS lost at the ballot box by a wide margin just last year. Little faith left in the polis commission though

 

[CoMulies]

Traveling for work this week and unfortunately could not attend.. Anyone here make the meeting, and if so, how did things appear to go?

 

[3325]

Fortunately, the Wyoming Constitution, Article 1, Section 39 states that hunting, fishing, and trapping is a heritage that, “shall forever be preserved.”

So, if you want to ban trapping in Wyoming, you can’t start with a petition or ballot initiative. You have to start by repealing a constitutional amendment that received about 84% support.

May you be unsuccessful in that endeavor.

 

[sshhh]

RMBS = Rocky Mountain Baby Sitters? Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep? Never seen this abbreviation before.

Nvm looked it up "Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society"

 

[sshhh]

Fortunately, the Wyoming Constitution, Article 1, Section 39 states that hunting, fishing, and trapping is a heritage that, “shall forever be preserved.”

So, if you want to ban trapping in Wyoming, you can’t start with a petition or ballot initiative. You have to start by repealing a constitutional amendment that received about 84% support.

May you be unsuccessful in that endeavor.

Never underestimate these scum though! The people who push this stuff forward pay people to do it as their full time job. At the same time the vast majority of us have lives unlike the payed minions doing the footwork for the scum.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Traveling for work this week and unfortunately could not attend.. Anyone here make the meeting, and if so, how did things appear to go?

Public comment is ongoing, there is a live feed if you want to listen in.

Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting: March 4-5, 2026

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is a citizen board, appointed by the Governor, which sets regulations and policies for Colorado’s state parks and wildlife programs.

cpw.state.co.us

 

[mt terry d]

Fortunately, the Wyoming Constitution, Article 1, Section 39 states that hunting, fishing, and trapping is a heritage that, “shall forever be preserved.”

So, if you want to ban trapping in Wyoming, you can’t start with a petition or ballot initiative. You have to start by repealing a constitutional amendment that received about 84% support.

May you be unsuccessful in that endeavor.

Don't rest too secure in that belief.

"We are not banning trapping. We are just requiring trappers to take a
200 hour course on ethical trapping methods and the purchase of a
$5000 yearly permit."

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Re: CPW meeting

Please report back on how many Colorado wildlife biologists
speak up at the meeting (who are not members of the Commission)

 

[CoMulies]

Public comment is ongoing, there is a live feed if you want to listen in.

Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting: March 4-5, 2026

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is a citizen board, appointed by the Governor, which sets regulations and policies for Colorado’s state parks and wildlife programs.

cpw.state.co.us

Thanks.. first thing I hear when I open the link is a woman who can barely speak English explaining why we apparently need to continue eroding Colorados way of life.. unreal

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

I've been listening for a while seems split speakers, maybe a tilt towards opposition. Not sure how it started out.

 

[sshhh]

Thanks.. first thing I hear when I open the link is a woman who can barely speak English explaining why we apparently need to continue eroding Colorados way of life.. unreal

The western world is in bad shape right now.

 

[CoMulies]

Jacober just called them all out on their BS. Everyone keeps saying “follow the science.” Well the CPW staff is sitting right in front of them telling them the science does not support a ban or bag limits, and that stooge Tutchton keeps arguing for some arbitrary bag limit based on “social science.” Complete joke.

 

[CoMulies]

The commission is just flat out compromised. Despite CPW staff saying that the trapping does not affect populations, and that there is no scientific support for the ban or bag limits, it still gets pushed through 6-4. Absolutely unbelievable.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Listening to them try to figure out what they are even trying to motion and the confusion is painful. Beaulieu motioned to approve but when questioned what her motion was she didn't know other than she approved "the spirt of the petition".

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

The commission is just flat out compromised. Despite CPW staff saying that the trapping does not affect populations, and that there is no scientific support for the ban or bag limits, it still gets pushed through 6-4. Absolutely unbelievable.

SPOILER!

shit.

I'm behind the live feed a bit

 

[CoMulies]

Listening to them try to figure out what they are even trying to motion and the confusion is painful. Beaulieu motioned to approve but when questioned what her motion was she didn't know other than she approved "the spirt of the petition".

They claim to be science based and then ram this shit through based on “the spirit” and “the social science.” It’s absolute horseshit.

It was pretty obvious Beaulieu was just trying to push it through to the next stage caveating there will be exceptions rather than it just flat out get voted down today.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

They claim to be science based and then ram this shit through based on “the spirit” and “the social science.” It’s absolute horseshit.

It was pretty obvious Beaulieu was just trying to push it through to the next stage caveating there will be exceptions rather than it just flat out get voted down today.

Correct. The stacked deck commission is starting to do damage. They stopped the voting at 6-4, they didn't ask Sichko since it wouldn't have changed the outcome but would have been nice to know for record.

 

[CoMulies]

I never want to hear “follow the science” again from these cowards after this. They flat out disregarded the science to do what their daddy Polis told them to do.

 

[sndmn11]

Someone, perhaps one of those PACs that get "our" (Coloradans) donations, needs to move towards a ballot initiative to get CPW commission appointed by the County Sheriff's.