IIRC, bear hunting is allowed in CO. It’s way too expensive, though. We need to give free permits and tags to Ozarkians and allow hunting dogs for that for a year or two. That would fix the problem. And some of those folks will eat anything. ;-)
Colorado had a Spring bear hunting season until the city liberals from California moved in.
Colorado had legal trapping until...
Sheep herders and cowboys took care of predators of all types until the feds / sierra club lawyers started removing the grazing ‘allotments’...
and...