Initiative 302 is being sold as “save hunting and fishing,” but hunting and fishing are already legal in Colorado.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife already manages seasons, tags, licenses, bag limits, and method-of-take rules. Colorado law already says hunting, trapping, and fishing are used as primary methods for necessary wildlife harvest.
So what are we actually being asked to do?
We are being asked to put broad, permanent language into the Colorado Constitution.
Words like “traditional methods,” “preferred means,” and “reasonable and necessary” may sound harmless at a petition table, but those are not just outdoor words. They are legal words.
🚨🚨🚨 Future lawsuit words to fight against science-based management, tie the hands of CPW, waste taxpayer $$, and stifle healthy debate even within our hunting communities.
Initiative 302 is a "power grab" rather than a protection for hunting and angling, it inserts vague language into the Colorado Constitution that could lead to costly legal battles over predator management and trapping.
Public resources and state funds can get diverted away from conservation to defend against lawsuits, ultimately serving specific business interests rather than local hunters and anglers.
Don’t let special-interest lobby groups drag hunters, anglers, license buyers, and taxpayers into future court fights and make the rest of us pay for it.
Decline to sign 302.
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