By Derek Draplin | Complete Colorado
DENVER—Two groups representing hunters are warning Colorado’s wildlife commissioners to withdraw their recent vote that restricted the bag limit for furbearer species to two per day, or potentially face a lawsuit.
The Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and Safari Club International argue in an August 5 letter to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission that hunters and trappers were deprived of providing public comment when commissioners adopted the two-furbearer daily bag limit that was pushed by one of Gov. Jared Polis’s appointees to the commission.
The letter lays out how the commission gave public notice of two options under consideration: a daily bag limit of 15, or a bag limit of up to eight (or four), depending on the species. However, the limit that commissioners ultimately approved in a 6-5 vote last month was a daily limit of two furbearers.
Fair notice failure
That bag limit was never given adequate public consideration, which the hunting groups argue in the letter violated Colorado’s Administrative Procedure Act, making the commission’s move “legally flawed and vulnerable to legal challenges.”
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