{"id":2444063,"date":"2019-05-11T08:40:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305698"},"modified":"2019-05-11T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:40:51","slug":"colorado-wildlife-commission-rejects-ban-on-bobcat-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-wildlife-commission-rejects-ban-on-bobcat-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado wildlife commission rejects ban on bobcat hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND JUNCTION (AP) \u2014 Colorado wildlife commissioners have rejected a citizen petition to outlaw the trapping and trophy hunting of bobcats.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/09\/colorado-bobcat-hunting-ban-rejected\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday that the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission heard arguments from both sides during a hearing in Grand Junction Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners say there is a lack of scientific evidence that harvesting bobcats at current levels is harmful to the species.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the proposed ban submitted a petition with 208,000 signatures during the meeting 243 miles (391 kilometers) west of Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Bobcats are killed both as hunting trophies and for their pelts. Coat makers in China and Russia sell bobcat-fur garments for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Records show licensed hunters and trappers in Colorado killed 1,978 bobcats last year, nearly three times the 680 killed in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-wildlife-commission-rejects-ban-on-bobcat-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND JUNCTION (AP) \u2014 Colorado wildlife commissioners have rejected a citizen petition to outlaw the trapping and trophy hunting of bobcats. The Denver Post&nbsp;reported&nbsp;Thursday that the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission heard arguments from both sides during a hearing in Grand Junction Thursday. The commissioners say there is a lack of scientific evidence that harvesting [&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-2444063","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 02:43:12","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\/2444063","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=2444063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}