Colorado Politics: The state of Colorado has settled a lawsuit against two Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners who violated the state’s open meetings law by drafting an opinion piece last year in support of a state ballot measure.

The state was sued last December in Denver District Court by the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and Safari Club International when two current commissioners and a former commissioner penned an opinion piece that ran in the Durango Herald last October, weeks before voters were to decide on a ballot measure that would ban “trophy hunting” of mountain lions, bobcats and lynx.

State law prohibits trophy hunting, but Lynx is a protected species.

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