Simple, the politicians involved hate farmers and ranchers and want to put pressure on them to sell off their land and to go out of business. You would thing I am joking since CO is a huge AG state but I am not, the politicians are commies that want to stop all non-corp farms/ranches from existing. Archive: https://archive.today/udTL7 From the post: >>The dark green rolling hills around Snowmass hold a special place in the heart of Pitkin County ranchers, but that landscape is also home to the root of their stressors — a wolf pack that they believe should never have been re-introduced there. From the top of one of those hills, Michael Cerveny and Brad Day looked down over the acres of pasture land, bordered by thick and scrappy vegetation. The two men have cows spanning U.S. Forest Service land, Bureau of Land Management land and the ranch property, and they work "fence-to-fence," meaning their two herds essentially have become one herd across two different ranches, Day explained.