{"id":5569,"date":"2025-02-19T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:34:33","slug":"annual-conservation-in-the-west-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/annual-conservation-in-the-west-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Conservation in the West Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>On February 19, 2025 the annual Conservation in the West Poll was published. The Poll was conducted January 3-17, prior to the Inauguration. The Poll was conducted again this year by Lori Weigel and Kathryn Hayne of New Bridge Strategy and Dave Metz of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz &amp; Associates. They surveyed 3,316 voters in eight western states: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada and Idaho.\u00a0 Here are a few Colorado highlights: 57% &#8220;believe that loss of habitat for fish and wildlife is an extremely or very serious problem.&#8221; 63% &#8220;oppose reducing protections for some of the rare plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.&#8221; 88% prefer decisions about public lands, water, and wildlife be made by career professionals such as rangers, scientists, and firefighters rather than new appointed officials who come from other industries.&#8221; 70% &#8220;support only allowing oil and gas companies the right to drill in areas where there is high likelihood to actually produce oil and gas.&#8221; 76% prefer that leaders place more emphasis on protecting water, air, wildlife habitat, and recreation opportunities over maximizing the amount of land available for drilling and mining.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/other\/stateoftherockies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to the Poll\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8 states 3300voters interviewed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8 states 3300voters interviewed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 19, 2025 the annual Conservation in the West Poll was published. The Poll was conducted January 3-17, prior to the Inauguration. The Poll was conducted again this year by Lori Weigel and Kathryn Hayne of New Bridge Strategy and Dave Metz of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz &amp; Associates. They surveyed 3,316 voters in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}