Current CPW commissioners promoting proposition 127 with lies.

[WyoBC_99]

#14 is the only one that matters and going from #13 to #14 is big leap. Is there anything to back that up besides wishful speculation?

You're right. It seems to me that #14 is actually two steps removed from #13.
First, does current hunting (which would go away) have a significant impact on mtn lion populations?
2nd, would that impact then change the potential impact of mtn lions on CWD?

There are a few published studies attempting to disentangle the potential impact of predators on CWD. Personally, I'm not sure that current hunting has a large impact on the mtn lion populations in CO.

To be clear, I wasn't speaking out in support of the hunt ban, but just trying to fill a perceived knowledge gap.

I know some folks in California where mtn lion hunting has already been banned, and it seems like not a path that we want to go down.

 

[canyonhunter47]

You're right. It seems to me that #14 is actually two steps removed from #13.
First, does current hunting (which would go away) have a significant impact on mtn lion populations?
2nd, would that impact then change the potential impact of mtn lions on CWD?

There are a few published studies attempting to disentangle the potential impact of predators on CWD. Personally, I'm not sure that current hunting has a large impact on the mtn lion populations in CO.

To be clear, I wasn't speaking out in support of the hunt ban, but just trying to fill a perceived knowledge gap.

I know some folks in California where mtn lion hunting has already been banned, and it seems like not a path that we want to go down.

The only study I could find said that hunting does have an effect on lion populations, which makes sense because that what makes hunting them a management tool. I’m not sure what the theoretical lion carrying capacity in CO is, but I’d expect the population to increase if hunting ceased.

But whether that’s right or not, an observed preference for weakened deer, such as by CWD, is not proof that lions will stop or slow the spread significantly.

 

[cardiac5]

I’d post this on all the western Facebook hunting groups. Colorado elk hunters is at 96.9k member’s. I’m sure there’s lots of residents in there. There’s also members in that group with the two names you mentioned.


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[Bluumoon]

I’d post this on all the western Facebook hunting groups. Colorado elk hunters is at 96.9k member’s. I’m sure there’s lots of residents in there. There’s also members in that group with the two names you mentioned.


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I put it on all the CO ones I'm aware of.

 

[#1antler]

Any of you get a response back from the AG?

I've heard nothing back!!

 

[street]

I've heard nothing back!!

I got the generic response

 

[Hnthrdr]

Any of you get a response back from the AG?

Nada on my end