In November 2026, Colorado voters will be asked whether hunting and fishing deserve the shelter of constitutional protection — a question that is less about changing what people can do outdoors and more about how difficult it should be for future generations to take those freedoms away. Amendment 83 joins a quiet national movement in 24 other states to elevate a cultural tradition above the reach of ordinary legislation, recognizing that what a statute grants, a statute can also quietly remove. The measure asks Coloradans to consider not just the present, but the political weather of decades t