WESTMINSTER — A confused Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission narrowly voted to allow a petition to ban the commercial sale of fur to move forward against a recommendation by Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists to deny the petition.
With about 400 people — many of whom traveled from the Western Slope — in attendance at the March 4 meeting in Westminster, the commisson voted 6-4 to allow the petition to enter into a rulemaking process, which could be heard by the commission at its May meeting in Grand Junction.
“The vote does not mean the entirety of the citizen petition has been approved,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Laura Clellan, who recommended denial of the petition, said in a March 5 news release. “In the coming months, CPW staff will draft a proposed rule to initiate our rulemaking process, along with an issue paper or draft regulations outlining any proposed exceptions that may be necessary or appropriate.”…