{"id":2444043,"date":"2019-05-10T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305623"},"modified":"2019-05-10T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:37:50","slug":"colorado-wildlife-commissioners-reject-ban-on-trapping-trophy-hunting-of-bobcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-wildlife-commissioners-reject-ban-on-trapping-trophy-hunting-of-bobcats\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado wildlife commissioners reject ban on trapping, trophy hunting of bobcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/bobcat-snare-fur-trappers.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/bobcat-snare-fur-trappers.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/bobcat-snare-fur-trappers-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>In this Dec. 7, 2007, file photo, a bobcat trapped in a snare at the Billings, Mont., airport looks out of his crate before being released east of Shepherd, Mont. In Colorado, state wildlife commissioners will consider a ban on hunting bobcats.<\/strong><br \/><em>Billings Gazette, Casey Riffe, Associated Press file<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grappling with the increased killing of bobcats for fur pelts to supply coat-makers in Asia, Colorado wildlife commissioners on Thursday rejected a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-wildlife-commissioners-weigh-ban-on-trapping-and-trophy-hunting-bobcats\/\" target=\"_blank\">citizen petition to outlaw the trapping and trophy hunting of the animals&nbsp;<\/a>in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners said science drove their decision \u2014 namely a lack of evidence that harvesting bobcats at current levels is harmful to the species.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of residents testified on either side of the proposed ban during a Colorado Parks and Wildlife hearing held in Grand Junction, the latest clash as the West\u2019s booming urban population challenges entrenched values around relations with wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials have identified robust prices for pelts as the motivation for the increased killing. Bobcat-fur coats made in China and Russia sell for tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/09\/colorado-bobcat-hunting-ban-rejected\/#comments-anchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read the full story from The Denver Post. (opens in a new tab)\">Read the full story from The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-wildlife-commissioners-reject-ban-on-trapping-trophy-hunting-of-bobcats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Dec. 7, 2007, file photo, a bobcat trapped in a snare at the Billings, Mont., airport looks out of his crate before being released east of Shepherd, Mont. In Colorado, state wildlife commissioners will consider a ban on hunting bobcats.Billings Gazette, Casey Riffe, Associated Press file Grappling with the increased killing of bobcats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 01:22:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}