Episode Details

Colorado's Parks and Wildlife Commission now has zero experienced big game hunters on it. The chair is a former Humane Society attorney who spent his career suing game agencies. Six of ten commissioners voted to impose a commercial fur ban that their own agency and director recommended against — in writing — with five expert witnesses and a hundred years of combined expertise. Dan Gates was in every one of those meetings.

Dan Gates runs Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management and has been on the front lines of every major Colorado hunting fight for eight years — Proposition 127, Ordinance 308, wolf reintroduction, and now Initiative 302: a constitutional amendment to enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the Colorado State Constitution. We dig into what that right actually does, why 24 other states already have it, and how the Polis administration has strategically stacked the commission. We also cover two upcoming raffles — a Hill Ranch elk hunt and an Alaska salmon/halibut trip — that benefit CRWM's ground game on this fight.

In this episode:
What Initiative 302 actually says — and what it doesn't do
Why Colorado hunters don't currently have a constitutional right to hunt
How Governor Polis stacks anti-hunting commissioners
The March commission meeting — agency scientists overruled by commissioners who said "our values differ from your science"
Two commissioners forced to resign during Senate confirmation — what that means
Why 24 other states already have this right
The Hill Ranch elk raffle — 34 preference points required to draw, better odds in this raffle than the state draw
Alaska salmon/halibut fishing raffle — Sitka, two people, Reel Charters

Guest: Dan Gates — Executive Director, Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management. savethehuntcolorado.com
Raffle tickets: scicolorado.org — deadline June 12th, drawing June 15th. $50/ticket, 3 for $100.
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