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Amendment 83 threatens to change how Colorado makes wildlife policy by giving hunting and fishing special constitutional status. Learn how this proposal could undermine science-based conservation, limit voters’ voices, and make it harder to protect wildlife for future generations.

I have grown milkweed at commercial scale for 35 years. My family has been in the nursery business since 1959, and our farm in Tennessee sits in the middle of the eastern monarch migration corridor. I have watched this crisis unfold from the field, not from a research station or a policy desk, but from the rows where the plants come out of the ground.