[george76]

The new citizens of Colorado...formerly of California, Mexico, etc...voted to ban the spring bear hunting season ( it had worked well since the 1800's ) and banned many of the standard bear hunting practices.

The forest service has also "vacated" many grazing permits. Thus the sheepherders and cowboys are not controlling the predators like bears, coyotes, mountain lions.

The population growth of the bears is huge and will grow much bigger every year. The breakin and mauling will be going up, too.

[mountainlyons]

At least we do not have wolves like at Yellowstone.