Colorado now not will permit hunters to make use of digital gadgets to lure mountain lions to them after state wildlife leaders voted this week to ban synthetic calls.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Fee voted unanimously Thursday to ban digital calls — criticized by some as giving hunters an unfair benefit — and to place an finish to the state’s April mountain lion searching season. Hunters use digital calls to play recordings of different lions or distressed prey, luring the carnivores to an space.
Each digital calls and the April searching season have been authorized in just some elements of the state earlier than the fee’s vote. Hunters with a license nonetheless will be capable to hunt mountain lions in Colorado from November via March.
The choice comes as mountain lion advocates push two potential poll measures. One would ban mountain lion searching and bobcat trapping. The opposite would restrict searching of the felines by prohibiting using canine or traps in addition to shortening the searching season to 2 weeks.
