2020 Colorado Proposition 114

Well, we appreciate the opportunity.

And I think anybody that's paid attention over the course of the last five or six years has since we had proposition 114 with the wolf introduction there's been a lot of tumultuous entertaining of thought processes within colorado parks and wildlife and 99 of it comes from the colorado parks and wildlife commission which is appointed by the governor of the state of colorado there's been many attempts and attacks and assaults to degrade and erode colorado parks and wildlife's ability to manage our wildlife resources through hunting and fishing And through the General Assembly, the commission, the ballot, and now it's time to turn around and try to put some of that stuff on the back burner, on the sidelines, and rely on the experts at CPW, the science-based experts, to allow them to continue to manage our wildlife resources in perpetuity.

This was the best way that we saw forward to be able to turn around and try to accomplish that.

It seems like the experts are doing a pretty good job outside of the wolves.

And most recently, there's been... a prohibition on the lethal take side of wolf management.

And the agency itself has made some decisions for a variety of reasons.

I mean, they're tasked with actually enacting the law of Proposition 114 from 2020.

And so while we can agree or disagree on how they're doing that, the law says that they should do it.

And Colorado is the best place to see them because Colorado did the whole thing from scratch.

In 2020, Colorado voters put wolves back on the landscape by ballot measure Proposition 114, and it squeaked by with about 51%.

The front range carried it out on the western slope where the wolves were going to live.

Most voters said no.