The Denver Post reported 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 bobcats at current levels is harmful to the species.
Supporters of the proposed ban submitted a petition with 208,000 signatures during the meeting.
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.
Records show licensed hunters and trappers in Colorado killed 1,978 bobcats last year, nearly three times the 680 killed in 2004.
Exposing the Big Game 
What is wrong with this state. They are planning to decriminalize magic mushrooms though:
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-magic-mushroom-denver-decriminalization-20190508-story.html
That’s good. Unlike poachers, “no person should ever be treated like a criminal for using a mushroom,”
I know, but surely individuals themselves have more goals in life, it’s rather hedonistic. To me, don’t put a person in jail for it, but the person themselves ought to think bigger.
There’s already a religion exception for things like peyote and mushrooms I think. Like Massachusetts, I wish Colorado could be more progressive about its wildlife – still almost as tyrannical as WY and ID.