Nevada Predator Hunting Association

07/17/2026

Leftist politicians and activists have hijacked wildlife management in Colorado. They are not going to stop either.

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission's vote this week was not wildlife management. It was capitulation.

By a 6-5 margin, commissioners rejected their own staff's data-driven recommendation of a 15-animal daily bag limit and instead imposed a limit of two — a decision made possible only by three newly appointed commissioners who have not yet been confirmed by the Colorado Senate, one of them casting a vote in her very first meeting on the board.

What makes this indefensible is not the outcome alone, but the record CPW put in front of the commission before the vote. Deputy assistant director Matt Eckert testified that harvest levels across furbearer species are at historic lows, that beaver populations statewide sit at roughly 53,000, and that observed take represents "a small percentage of the maximum allowable harvest for a sustainable population."

None of that mattered. Commissioner Becky Niemiec made it clear he role on the Comission is to advance her ideology: the point of the new limit was "to make sure people feel better" about trapping — not to correct any biological problem. She backed that position with a self-run, unverified survey of fewer than 700 respondents, which CPW's own staff noted had not been independently validated, against harvest data the agency called its "gold standard."

This is what happens when a wildlife commission stops managing wildlife and starts managing perception. Commissioner Tai Jacober warned the board should lean toward science over social tolerance; he was outvoted. Commissioner Frances Silva Blayney argued the state has no furbearer problem to solve; she was outvoted. Even Commissioner Jack Murphy, who backed a compromise limit, conceded trappers have "very little impact because there's just not many of them" — which only underscores how unnecessary this proposal was.

https://club20foundation.org/2026/07/dysfunctional-cpw-commission-chooses-social-expediency-over-science-in-furbearer-debate/

07/02/2026

If memory serves me correctly, you get a written survey with questions to get this endorsement and one of those supporting endorsement questions is banning AR-15 rifles. The same rifles many of us use to lawfully hunt predators with.

06/29/2026

I want to give everyone an update on the position we currently have with the Wildlife Commission on thermals. I spoke to all the commissioners except two last week and I told them we will not support a thermal ban for all wildlife from July to December. And if this advances in the commission we will stop attending meetings on this issue and focus on defeating the regulation in Carson City. We aren’t going to waste our time talking to a commission who isn’t listening to us on an issue that has already heard overwhelming opposition.
The NPHA is made up of members who also participate in big game hunting. And for that reason, we will help support strengthening the CURRENT law in the legislature by making it a gross misdemeanor offense to use thermal imaging devices for big game. But, the compromise on the commissions part is they need to drop the current proposal and only prohibit thermal use for big game animals moving forward. The coalition for Nevada’s Wildlife is going to look into the matter to see if the coalition can set up a possible sub committee to move this forward under those guidelines.
We are not here to be obstructionists to laws that make sense, but we are not going to allow “feel good” regulations to pass that target predator hunters for an issue that has nothing to do with us that simultaneously takes away our hunting privileges for fur bearing and unprotected species.

I will keep everyone updated as discussions on this matter progress.

06/21/2026

It’s a long story and it was a battle fought for several months, but the NPHA was fined thousands of dollars in civil penalties because we didn’t finalize our organization within 60 days from the day we officially filed with the Nevada Secretary of State’s office. During that time we didn’t take any money or spend any money but the IRS didn’t care. They fined us $20 a day and waited until the bill maxed out to tell us we owed the government. Fortunately there was an error on our application with the Secretary of State’s Office. I used that to argue our date of formation was not valid and therefore if we were not legally registered with the State, the IRS couldn’t fine us if the State of Nevada inappropriately took our application. While the IRS took several months figuring out how to overcome the technicality, I did another renewal with the Secretary of State that was valid. The IRS extended the process at least five different times and ultimately caved and removed the fine. It’s not every day you beat the government, but it’s sure nice when you do and do it by pitting the state officials against the feds to get the win. 😁

04/17/2026

This is good news.