By Derek Draplin | The Center Square
A new report says a ballot measure banning big cat hunting in Colorado would prove costly for state wildlife management and the hunting industry.
Initiative 91, which will appear on the November ballot, would ban the hunting of mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx, removing them from the state’s definition of “big game.”
The report, by the Common Sense Institute, a free-enterprise think tank, estimates that Colorado’s mountain lion population would increase by 443 cats, noting an average of 508 were harvested annually since 2019.