CPW director leaving

[Mudranger1]

Thoughts on how this goes for replacement? I'm not real sure how it works. Governor influenced...I hope not


CPW Director Jeff Davis stepping down from position after 2.5 years https://share.google/dRu55Pr6njkpPHa1d

 

[elkduds]

That was fast. I heard him talk once at Roundtable, not very honest or confidence-inspiring. The staff @ CPW deserve great leadership. like they had w the Director before Davis. Yep, the one Polis fired for "back of the bus" comment, Dan Prenzlow.

 

[bayoublaster7527]

I know there has been justified criticism of Davis but I am not feeling good about a replacement under the current Polis administration. Davis’ replacement will be hand-picked by Polis and “Wildlife Czar” Marlon Reis with input from all our favorite folks from CBD, CATS, WildEarth Guardians, and Sierra club. And it won’t be good for sportsmen. Things can always get worse….. much worse.

Prenzlow was a great Director, what they did to him was a dang crime.

 

[bayoublaster7527]

Word on the street is acting Director, MG (ret) Laura Clellan, former CO National Guard AG, is hard core animal rights and gun control. Would be hard to verify this as she likely remained apolitical in her public life while serving. Also never held a hunting or fishing license. TBD whether they keep her on as permanent Director. Buckle up this last bit of the Polis regime will be rough for Colorado sportsmen.

 

[bayoublaster7527]

Colorado Parks and Wildlife director resigned instead of termination

The Colorado Department of Natural Resources announced that Jeff Davis resigned. 9NEWS Investigates found out he was going to be fired.

www.9news.com

More twists in this saga. Looks like Polis-Reis henchman Dan “Spineless” Gibbs wanted to fire Davis but instead had him resign so he could hire him as his “strategic advisor”. Interesting that they refused to provide a reason for terminating Davis. Thats the corruption and lack of transparency we have come to expect from Polis administration.

I guess you can’t come right out and say “we wanted to fire him so we could replace him with an anti-hunting, anti-agriculture activist”.

 

[rebjfan]

Word on the street is acting Director, MG (ret) Laura Clellan, former CO National Guard AG, is hard core animal rights and gun control. Would be hard to verify this as she likely remained apolitical in her public life while serving. Also never held a hunting or fishing license. TBD whether they keep her on as permanent Director. Buckle up this last bit of the Polis regime will be rough for Colorado sportsmen.

It appears that the only qualification that laura clellan had for her to be appointed is her serial preference. It appears to me there would be plenty of men or women in colorado that are more qualified for the job and there would be no need for mentioning their serial preference.

 

[COHunter20]

More twists in this saga. Looks like Polis-Reis henchman Dan “Spineless” Gibbs wanted to fire Davis but instead had him resign so he could hire him as his “strategic advisor”. Interesting that they refused to provide a reason for terminating Davis.

This was my initial reaction upon hearing about his resignation. “Hey, how about you resign, so we don’t have to fire you”.

In my opinion, it seemed like he was getting close to and almost supportive of the ag community due to the wolf issue. He seemed to be siding more with them on some of the issues that would come up like pushing for depredation compensations. I could assume how that would just piss off some of his anti-ag, anti-hunting supervisors.

 

[one ate E grain]

I'm sorry for all folks who hunt in Colorado, the writing has been on the wall for at least 10 years, Polis just accelerated things. There's nothing to be done. The urban front range has more voters all the time. Reasonable people who aren't necessarily anti hunting voted to bring wolves in and they'll support bans on cat hunting and all kinds of other restrictions as they come. To many people those kinds of things sound reasonable. They just have no idea other than the anti hunting anti ranching propaganda that is printed in the news.

Orgs like Wild Earth Guardians have people who write well pumping out well written convincing reasonable sounding free articles which they offer to small newspapers or web sites, for free. Anti hunting, anti ranching, people are a small but well organised well funded minority, and they influence the large uninterested majority.

Even at CPW, the route to advancement is via wolves and public relations. People want to get certified, get trained, get advanced degrees, attend workshops. Wildlife is a job.

 

[Southern Elk]

The anti hunting is bad enough, but I can’t understand anti ranching. How the hell are people supposed to eat? Guess we all have to become vegans.

 

[Dave N]

Guess we all have to become vegans.

 

[shb]

 

[bayoublaster7527]

Polis Reis Gibbs are putting all the chess pieces in place to slowly eliminate hunting from wildlife management and outdoor recreation in Colorado. Stack the CPW commission (pending confirmation this spring) and then bring in a new director completely removed from the sportsmen’s community.

 

[bayoublaster7527]

And it just got a whole lot worse…. Commissioner Murphy Robinson, the sole dependable advocate on the commission for hunters and hunting, just resigned. Likely he “resigned” just like Jeff Davis. Actually forced out by the Polis administration. This is the final pieces of the Polis-Reis-Gibbs plan to eliminating hunters and hunting. Remove any hunters or hunting friendly advocates from the commission, stack the commission with anti-hunting activist, and emplace a new director.

He can just leave the spot vacant to ensure the hunting community has absolutely no voice on the commission.

We really need the hunting community and organizations to speak out and demand answers. This is clearly an authoritarian purge of any hunting advocates from wildlife management in Colorado.

 

[COHunter20]

And it just got a whole lot worse…. Commissioner Murphy Robinson, the sole dependable advocate on the commission for hunters and hunting, just resigned.

That’s a huge blow! I listened to Dan Gates’s podcast with him about a month ago and he just seems like an all around good guy and a great representative for sportsmen and women. He did not even hint at resignations and was in fact indicating his desire for a second term on the commission. Definitely suspect he was pushed out the door similarly to Jeff Davis.

 

[bayoublaster7527]

That’s a huge blow! I listened to Dan Gates’s podcast with him about a month ago and he just seems like an all around good guy and a great representative for sportsmen and women. He did not even hint at resignations and was in fact indicating his desire for a second term on the commission. Definitely suspect he was pushed out the door similarly to Jeff Davis.

It’s very bad. Robinson was the best. We only got him because we pushed back on Gary Skiba after Polis-Reis rejected every candidate and recommendation made by the hunting community. Very scary who he will appoint to replace Robinson.

 

[one ate E grain]

The anti hunting is bad enough, but I can’t understand anti ranching. How the hell are people supposed to eat? Guess we all have to become vegans.

Colorado has about 2% of the beef cows in the US. A worse problem than the beef is the loss of the ranchers. Often the ranches are multi generational, some of the last people living out in the areas we like and making a living off the natural resources of the land. When people live in a place they tend to notice what happens, they care for a land, even those lands they don't own. When the ranchers are forced to sell out we lose a lot more than beef.

 

[one ate E grain]

Vail Daily

Good neutral article about the money side of things. Looks like the reporter got a lot of info from Kelly Shen the Senior Budget Analyst for the state who does the numbers on parks and wildlife. It looks like the reintroduction has to continue even without enough funds.

They've already reduced the number of tags in some units. I used to be an anti wolf nut, and I know wolf populations grow very fast, and the loss of revenue from tags, and then later from reduced numbers of hunters spending money at hotels etc. They are looking at a regular fiasco. ID, MT, and WY aren't good examples of how things will go. I think it will be considerably worse.