Colorado voters on Nov. 5 will decide a proposed ban on mountain lion hunting. The ballot question has sparked a debate over what opponents call

Proposition 127 would outlaw the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats. So what should you know before casting your vote?

Colorado voters will decide via Proposition 127 whether the decades-old hunting of mountain lions and bobcat trapping should be banned. Here’s an explainer of the ballot measure.

“Fun fact: we do NOT have Mountain Lions in Salem, or NH, or in NE really,” Salem Police wrote in a social media post. But the town does have a lot of bobcats, and officials provided some knowledge about North America’s most common native cats:

I fell in love with it the first time I saw it — we call them real mountains,” said Samantha Miller, as she walked down East Inlet trail in Rocky Mountain National Park in Grand Lake. “Wild animals are my favorite thing,

Opposers say the issue doesn’t belong in the hands of voters, but rather wildlife experts like Colorado Parks and Wildlife.