When Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners in January 2021 allowed hunters in some areas to lure mountain lions with electronic calling devices, animal rights groups reacted with a new plan: asking lawmakers to ban hunting…
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission last week stuck by a decision made last fall to allow the use of electronic calls to hunt mountain lions in some areas, amid continuing debate over the ethics of the practice.
The commission approved regulations allowing the practice in accordance with the Western Slope mountain lion management plan it approved in September. The electronic calls will be allowed in a new Glenwood Springs region special management area including most of the Roaring Fork Valley and parts of the Eagle Valley south of Interstate 70, and in parts of southwest Colorado near the Utah border.