I have lived in Colorado for over 60 years and began following my father elk hunting as a kindergartner. I’ve also been involved as a citizen in Colorado with wildlife and habitat issues for 40 years, have served on various groups with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, and have been a student in the wildlife biology program at CSU. Recently in The Denver Post, Dan Ashe wrote that cougars regulate Chronic Wasting Disease in an effort to build support for a ban on mountain lion hunting with Proposition 127 .