Wildlife Update

Well unfortunately my article Silver Lining should have been entitled Dark Cloud. Early voting indicated that Colorado voters had passed ballot measure 127, which would have banned the hunting and trapping of wild cats, including our beautiful bobcats and endangered lynx. It’s hard to understand why Colorado worked so hard to bring the lynx back a few years ago, just to allow them to be tortured and killed by the psycho trapper fringe element skulking around in the mountains.

According to the Denver Post, it’s possible that voters rejected the idea that wildlife management should be voter driven. My feeling is that leg and body hold trapping is an archaic and sadistic relic of the past that is only practiced by a small mentally ill fringe element, and should be completely banned at the federal level. It’s high time for the U.S. join over 100 countries throughout world that have already banned the barbaric activity.

If you feel the way I do, please write or call your congressmen and women regularly and voice your opinion. It’s especially imperative, now that republicans control both houses of government, that we double down on protecting the environment and our wildlife.

Photographer and author Steven W. Krull has been photographing and writing of the beauty and wildlife of the Colorado Rocky Mountains for over two decades. Visit his complete works on his website at swkrullimaging.com