Vail Daily: Two national hunting advocacy groups are suing the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission and two individual commissioners over an op-ed written during the November election, claiming they violated open meeting laws. 

Amid the battle over Proposition 127 — a measure that sought to ban the hunting of mountain lions, bobcats and lynx in Colorado — current Parks and Wildlife Commissioners Jessica Beaulieu and Jack Murphy were listed as authors on an opinion article that ran in The Durango Herald on Oct. 12 expressing their personal support for the measure. James Pribyl, a former chair of the commission, was also listed as an author.

Safari Club International, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and Brett Axton, president of the Colorado chapter of the Safari Club, filed a Nov. 21 complaint in the Denver County District Court, claiming that to draft the op-ed, Beaulieu and Murphy “must have met to discuss their position on the hunting of mountain and bobcats.” 

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