Colorado Ballot Measure Would Protect Hunting and Fishing in State Constitution
By Mike Krause | Complete Colorado
DENVER–Colorado voters will decide in November whether to enshrine hunting and fishing as a constitutional right, after the secretary of state’s office on Wednesday confirmed Initiative #302 qualified for the general election ballot.
Backers of the measure, formally titled “Constitutional Right to Hunt and Fish,” turned in over 184,000 petition signatures, with state election officials declaring more than 145,000 of those as valid, easily clearing the roughly 124,000 signature threshold required for constitutional amendments, as well as the 2% per-district requirement in all 35 of Colorado’s state senate districts.
The measure, backed by the newly formed T. Roosevelt Conservation Alliance, amends the Colorado Constitution to establish...