{"id":74,"date":"2022-03-07T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:07:48","slug":"take-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/programs\/take-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
Comment period for State Wildlife Action Plan open till 11\/12<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To read the information on the SWAP and to make your comment, click here to access CPW\u2019s engagement website: SWAP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Colorado Wildlife Federation Opposes Mountain Lion and Bobcat Hunting Ban <\/i><\/b>Proposition 127<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Key Takeaways<\/b><\/p>\n Colorado Wildlife Federation (CWF) supports regulated and ethical wildlife harvest for legitimate purposes as a basic principle of the<\/span> North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.<\/span><\/a> Regulated hunter harvest is the best tool available to Colorado Parks and Wildlife for managing Colorado\u2019s wildlife populations.<\/span><\/p>\n Proposition 127<\/b> aims to ban the harvest of mountain lions and bobcats through the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission and the Colorado State Legislature. If successful, this ballot initiative would prohibit the regulated hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, and end a successful, and highly-regulated method of wildlife management, removing decisions about wildlife management from trained wildlife experts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mountain lion and bobcat populations are not biologically threatened and lynx is not hunted due to federal regulations.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Colorado\u2019s mountain lion population has flourished since 1965, when they were classified as a big game species. Similarly, bobcats are the most prevalent wild cat in the state, and populations are robust. Managing mountain lions and bobcats to secure their coexistence in Colorado is crucial to their survival. Lynx are already protected by both state and federal law, with hunting and trapping prohibited.<\/span><\/p>\n Wildlife in Colorado are managed sustainably, in delicate balance with their habitats and other wildlife species. Many Colorado wildlife species, including mountain lions and bobcats, were once rare or threatened with extinction. Today, their populations are abundant due to science-based wildlife management and regulated hunting with extensive requirements for using ethical harvest methods.<\/span><\/p>\n Additional Resources:<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Take Action Comment period for State Wildlife Action Plan open till 11\/12 Colorado Parks and Wildlife\u2019s (CPW) comment period for the Colorado State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) remains open through November 12. Public comment is sought on the plan at this stage of its development: the draft lists of tier 1 and tier 2 \u201cspecies …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/5440"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/span>Colorado Wildlife Federation supports the science-based principles of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.<\/b><\/p>\n\n