The Associated Press called the defeat of Proposition 127, which would have banned the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats, on Wednesday morning.

For decades, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has used hunting to manage mountain lion and bobcat populations. That could end if Proposition 127 passes this year. Wildlife experts, however, disagree on what its passage could mean.

Proposition 127 won in some urban Colorado counties ls most rural communities vote against a ban on mountain lion hunting