Colorado to consider ban on hunting with drones

[I’m curious, would drone hunting fall under the heading of “ethical hunting” or “sport” hunting?]

By Ryan Budnick
7News 11/13/2013

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LAMAR β€” Colorado is looking to prevent the unmanned aircraft from being used for hunting.

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is set to begin discussion on making it illegal to use drones to help hunters spot potential game. The topic is one of many the commission will take up during two days of meetings in Lamar starting Thursday.

“There is a ton of technology available to people that would make it very, very easy for people to hunt,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton said. “We try to hold the line to make sure that hunting is done in an ethical manner.”

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11 thoughts on “Colorado to consider ban on hunting with drones

  1. I love your comment, jim – [I’m curious, would drone hunting fall under the heading of “ethical hunting” or “sport” hunting?]

  2. Trophy hunting and trapping are diseases, imposed by hunters, trappers and wildlife agencies, extreme minorities of the general population, upon game species and the public. Hunting is not good for the wildlife ecology, upsetting the health of game species and the balanced ecology of prey and predator. It is absurdly asinine as management tools (excuse for hunting). Man no longer needs hunting or trapping for subsistence. Predators, such as the wolf, bear, lion, coyote cull the weak, vulnerable, and make the herds move, thereby increasing their health. Man hunting, blood sports, especially trophy hunting, kills the strong and healthy and the teachers and caretakers of the young, and disrupts families. Man hunting (predation) is additive to game herds, a negative viability effect. Hunting is not healthy for man or targeted animals. It is a rationalization of hunters and wildlife agencies for killing wildlife, called management or recreational opportunity. Wildlife viewing, especially adding in wildlife photography, can be just as challenging. Wildlife viewing is also more of a revenue benefit for the economy and 5 times more popular than hunting. If the state wildlife agencies, and USFWS, and USDA Wildlife Services could be switched from wildlife killers to wildlife enhancers and facilitators of wildlife viewing, it would be better for wildlife, the public, and even the mental health of the hunters and trappers; and would move mankind closer to what we entertain ourselves as: humane, humanity, a part of nature instead of apart from it, but no longer subsisting on it.

  3. Hunters, only representing about 6% of the population, and even smaller numbers of trappers, are getting out of control aided and abetted by bat sh– crazy state legislators and state and federal wildlife agencies. Is it the last gasps of a dying breed of throwbacks. Drones! Outright war on wildlife! So totally absurd. A scoped rifle is not even sporting.

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