By Quentin Young | editor
“Initiative 302 threatens both Colorado’s wildlife and Coloradans’ voice in how wildlife is managed.”
– Aubyn Royall, Colorado state director for Humane World for Animals
Deer in Colorado. (Courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife/Wayne D. Lewis)
By Sara Wilson
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to put the right to hunt and fish in the state’s constitution. Hunting and fishing activities are already legal in Colorado and managed by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The amendment is backed by CRWM and the Wisconsin-based International Order of T. Roosevelt, which has successfully led similar campaigns in other states and seeks to preserve the so-called “North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.” Opponents of the initiative worry it would restrict Colorado’s ability to enact future protections for wildlife and solutions for wildlife conflicts, create public-safety concerns and cause management problems.
Left: John Long Routt, first governor of the state of Colorado. Right: Lafayette Head, the state’s first lieutenant governor and an early settler of the San Luis Valley. (Courtesy of Denver Public Library Special Collections, Z-1971)
TIMELINE 1876
By Chase Woodruff
The last of the delegates elected to Colorado’s first-ever state party convention arrived in Pueblo on a special train from Denver on Aug. 23, 1876. “The prospects at present are exceedingly good for a tolerably lively contest for the nominations for the various offices to be selected by the convention,” reported the Pueblo Chieftain. In selecting governor candidates, Colorado Republicans had to choose between two former territorial governors and a former territorial legislator. Two of the candidates eventually joined forces to win.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office on August 6, 2026. Trump signed an executive order during the event denying birthright citizenship to children of foreign diplomats after a loss at the U.S. Supreme Court limited an earlier order. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
By Ashley Murray
President Donald Trump has not slowed his pursuit of central policy goals and personal passions, even after major setbacks at the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts. Even after the Supreme Court ruled against him — such as on birthright citizenship and tariffs — Trump is forging ahead and using what some legal observers describe as “creative lawyering” to find alternative routes to push his agenda, even as public support fades.
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