10/14/2026
Good morning Colorado! Today is Wednesday and it’s a great day to Vote YES on 83 to protect and preserve Colorado’s legendary outdoor traditions.
If you hunt, fish and want to see these traditions continue in spite of the continued lies, scare tactics and fear mongering being pushed by the anti-hunters — you are going to enjoy today’s post.
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership—the group Eric Washburn helped launch years ago—just joined the Colorado Wildlife Conservation Project and a long list of real sportsmen’s organizations in supporting Amendment 83.
Read that again. The actual conservation coalition of hunters and anglers is backing the constitutional right to hunt, fish, and manage wildlife with science.
Washburn’s little “Hunters and Anglers” committee is standing with Wayne Pacelle’s anti-hunting machine instead. He got bought off with $100,000 from the same group that brought the cat hunting ban to your ballot last cycle.
They know as we do that their whole scare campaign collapses under the actual language.
Amendment 83 does not bring back banned trapping methods. Leghold traps stay banned under the 1996 constitutional amendment (check out yesterday’s post for the legal proof on that one). Bear baiting and the spring bear hunt stay banned under the 1992 amendment.
The measure simply codifies current legal practices and explicitly preserves CPW’s authority to regulate seasons, methods, bag limits, and everything else based on sound science, public safety, and protecting future opportunity. It does not authorize trespass. It does not force hunting of nongame or endangered species.
It simply locks in what is already legal and keeps professional biologists in charge instead of letting the next ballot measure or activist commissioner rewrite the rules.
Washburn and Pacelle know this. They are just hoping Colorado hunters, anglers and those who understand the importance of true conservation won’t check.
His committee has taken at least $100,000 from Pacelle’s Center for a Humane Economy while he poses as a concerned hunter who thinks hunting itself is on the way out.
The fraud is complete.
Real sportsmen’s groups, including the organization he once helped start and well over 200 more (a lot more coming on the pro side here this week) have signed on to protect hunting, fishing, and science-based conservation in the Colorado Constitution.
Washburn and his allies are still inventing reasons to oppose it.
So what’s the next excuse, Eric? What else are you going to claim once the trapping scare and the “vague language” talking points fall apart?
The vote is YES on Amendment 83.
Thank you to TRCP and the Colorado Wildlife Conservation Project members for standing with us for truth. For protecting the right to hunt, fish and conserve our wild resources for the next generation.
Together, you can and will provide certainty that Colorado’s outdoor heritage will be passed on to the next generation. Now go VOTE YES on 83 and turn in that Ballot!
As always please read it and share it with your family and friends.
