Because big money from out of state environazis passed a referendum to ALTER THE STATE CONSTITUTION and outlaw baiting and dogs for bear hunting, the most effective means to hunt them. Bear numbers have exploded since. So now government employees use bait and dogs to thin the populations.
That fact was tickling the edge of my consciousness. There is a similar problem in California.
“Progressives” have found a chink in the checks and balances of states, and it is that big money can buy referendums, especially when the ubiquitous establishment media is in favor.
Some really, really stupid stuff gets passed, and is very hard to get rid of.
The Colorado hunting example is a good (horrible) one.
Yes. It’s not that they assed a law, they amended the Constitution with a vote of 50% +1 to ass it. I don’t know how we could pass a new referendum to undo it now because they’ll be back with the cute baby bear ads.
How stupid to put wildlife management rules in the Constitution.