Amendment 83 would enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the Colorado Constitution — keeping wildlife management grounded in science and led by Colorado Parks & wildlife, a national leader in conservation. This measure protects the Colorado way of life, sustains the funding that keeps habitat and wildlife thriving, and ensures decisions about our wild places are sustained for future generations. Read full text here.
Colorado Parks & Wildlife has decades of research guiding responsible wildlife conservation. Amendment 83 keeps those decisions where they belong — with biologists and wildlife professionals, not politics.
Hunting and fishing put food on the table, support rural economies, and contribute over $3.25 billion and 25,000 jobs to conservation statewide. Amendment 83 protects that way of life for the next generation.
Wildlife policy shouldn’t be an experiment. What starts in one state spreads to others — Amendment 83 makes sure Colorado’s approach stays rooted in science, balance, and common sense, no matter what happens elsewhere.
Amendment 83 places the right to hunt and fish in the Colorado Constitution, so wildlife management stays grounded in science and guided by the professionals at Colorado Parks & Wildlife. Constitutional protection means those decisions can’t be undone by a single ballot measure – they stay rooted in research, balance, and common sense for the next generation.
Yes – in the best way. Hunting and fishing are the financial backbone of conservation in Colorado, generating billions in economic activity and supporting tens of thousands of jobs while funding habitat restoration and species management statewide. Amendment 83 keeps that funding stream secure, so the wildlife and wild places we love continue to thrive.
It’s about making sure Colorado decides for Colorado. In other states, ballot measures have restricted or ended science-based wildlife management – and what starts in one state often spreads to others. Amendment 83 ensures that decisions about our wildlife are made here at home, by biologists and science, not by campaigns from somewhere else.