{"id":90789,"date":"2020-01-13T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/judge-rejects-challenge-to-colorado-plan-to-kill-bears-and-lions\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:39:21","slug":"judge-rejects-challenge-to-colorado-plan-to-kill-bears-and-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/judge-rejects-challenge-to-colorado-plan-to-kill-bears-and-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rejects challenge to Colorado plan to kill bears and lions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=67d893f7-9050-48a9-be7d-dbc67b8ef447&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" alt=\"A lawsuit opposing Colorado wildlife officials\u2019 plan to kill black bears and mountain lions as a way of boosting mule deer populations on the West Slope has been dismissed.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A lawsuit opposing Colorado wildlife officials\u2019 plan to kill black bears and mountain lions as a way of boosting mule deer populations on the West Slope has been dismissed.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Denver District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit opposing Colorado wildlife officials\u2019 plan to kill black bears and mountain lions as a way of boosting mule deer populations on the West Slope. <\/p>\n<p>Judge Robert McGahey, Jr., ruled that Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists can continue with plans to cull mountain lions and black bears from the Piceance and Upper Arkansas River basins. The November decision denies claims by WildEarth Guardians that the agency\u2019s plans violated state laws prohibiting lethal trapping methods.<\/p>\n<p>Those laws \u2014 part of Colorado\u2019s Amendment 14, which was approved by voters in 1996 \u2014 allow trapping for \u201cbona fide scientific research.\u201d McGahey found the two research studies met the definition of \u201cbona fide scientific research\u201d because they will provide new and relevant knowledge and will be carried out by qualified personnel with results suitable for publication.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ruled that CPW\u2019s research does not violate its mission to protect the public interest in wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/01\/13\/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-management\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more of this article at The Colorado Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPW can continue with plans to cull mountain lions and black bears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-90789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90789"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=90789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}