Colorado Hunters Boycott

[mike rossi]

Sounds reasonable to me. Beating up on a wildlife management agency because of the stupidity of politicians is a very misguided notion.

 

Plus lets all get our 2nd amendment rights wrecked and then show them SOBs by giving up our hunting ..... lol. That'll show 'em!

Doc,

I did not click on the link so I don't know what this is about, but there is something brewing in Colorado with no connection to gun control. Colorado hands out 15% of its big game tags to landowners. This has evolved into a situation where landowners are selling these tags for about any price they want. Each permit does not restrict the hunter to some specific private land, the permit is good over the entire unit, including public lands. The landowner doesn't even have to allow access to his land. Colorado has a senate bill pending right now for changes. Its my understanding that although the original program was Colorado F&G's idea, that lobbying from the agriculture community has expanded the Colorado landowner voucher program as I described. In other words, special interest lobbying from the agriculture community is controlling Colorado fish & game department's policy on this program by influencing politicians. Once more , conservation is politicized... It is also interesting, although this issue can have some biological aspects, it is largely a social issue - that shows that sometimes even social issues are not immune to bad policy pushed through a political arena.  I think Colorado f&g can more fairly distribute permits than Colorado legislature. If part of this boycott is because of this, that part is misdirected.