1) The issue presented is a county-local issue, not a national concern, therefore input from those of us who are NOT part of the 325,000 people who live within Larimer County have no right to input.

2) This proposal is a trash mitigation effort, which would ONLY, by extension, prohibit baiting of coyotes or other game, as reflected that bait would qualify as abandoned waste. This proposal does NOT, in any language, restrict the right to hunt or shoot on these areas, but ONLY prohibits baiting by extension of abandoned waste prevention.

3) This proposal ONLY states to regulate activities on unincorporated areas of the county WITHIN THE ESTES VALLEY PLANNING AREA, and ONLY for industrial sites smaller than 10 acres AND not on agricultural zoned areas. I would argue it's very common for incorporated areas to prohibit hunting activities, and further argue, it's common to prevent hunting activities on unincorporated industrial zoned parcels, regardless of size. Not much hunting or shooting can really happen on an industrial site smaller than 10 acres anyway, and agricultural zones are not touched by this proposal.

4) Based on reviewing the 7 sub-areas of the Estes Valley Planning Area, there appear to be somewhere between 10-25% of these areas which MIGHT apply as "huntable areas" which would then become NOT "baitable" based on the proposal. The agricultural areas would remain huntable AND baitable. The only thing you're really losing access to, by the langauge I'm seeing, is that 10-25% of the "unimproved residental" acres, and potentially "forest" areas. And if HUNTING is not prohibited on these areas, it would remain to NOT be prohibited, ONLY baiting would be prohibited, by extension of the definition of abandoned waste. I cannot comment as to the distribution of that 10-25% of acres, these may well not be safely huntable due to proximity already. The open spaces, large industrial and agricultural, remain to be huntable AND baitable. For perspective, the Agricultural zones make up about 10% of the acres within each planning area - and these will remain to be huntable AND baitable.

Pick your battles my friend. This one just seems silly as an overall issue, but further, starting a membership on a forum and posting 3 times about the same LOCAL ISSUE in the same day doesn't really seem pertinent to this forum.