Albuquerque Journal Editorial: Nothing about traps is New Mexico True

Albuquerque Journal Editorial: Nothing about traps is New Mexico True

Dec 7, 2020 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Coyote, Cruelty, Dog, Editorial, Endangered Species, Legislation, Mexican wolf, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Poisons, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Tourism Industry, Trap Injuries, Trapping Incidents Map, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Waste, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

BY ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD Monday, December 7th, 2020 at 12:02am New Mexicans have worked hard over the years to do right by the animals in our state. We have banned cockfighting, horse tripping and coyote-killing contests. We have made dog fighting a...
Sierra County Sun: New Mexico: Land of Entrapment

Sierra County Sun: New Mexico: Land of Entrapment

Dec 5, 2020 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Cruelty, Dog, Endangered Species, Fur Trade, Letter to the Editor, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Injuries, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife

by Mary Katherine Ray | December 4, 2020 Many people are surprised to learn that fur trapping—the exploitative relic of the 1800s—still goes on today in our crowded, fragile world. Worse, the steel-jawed devices and wire neck-snares that trappers still use can be...
Albuquerque Journal: Dogs caught in traps rekindle debate in NM

Albuquerque Journal: Dogs caught in traps rekindle debate in NM

Nov 30, 2020 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Dog, Fur Trade, Hiker, National Forest, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Safety, Rescue, Roxy's Law, Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trapping on Public Lands

SANTA FE – Terry Miller of White Rock was walking her two dogs through the Jemez National Recreation Area on Thanksgiving Day when she heard a sharp scream. She turned around to find her dog, Jessie, a 2-year-old Dutch shepherd, with one of her paws caught in a metal...
Outdoor recreationists encounter horrors during the first three weeks of the ‘20-‘21 trapping season

Outdoor recreationists encounter horrors during the first three weeks of the ‘20-‘21 trapping season

Nov 25, 2020 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Cruelty, Dog, Illegal Trapping, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Press Release, Public Lands, Public Safety, Rescue, Roxy's Law, Trap Injuries, Trapping on Public Lands

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 25, 2020 New Mexicans are warned of gruesome sights and danger while on public lands over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend—on the two-year anniversary of the death of “Roxy,” the dog who became the namesake for anti-trapping legislation...
Farmington Daily Times: Trapping season is underway and dog walkers should take precautions to protect pets

Farmington Daily Times: Trapping season is underway and dog walkers should take precautions to protect pets

Nov 22, 2020 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Dog, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trapping on Public Lands

AZTEC — It isn’t unusual for James Stackhouse’s husky, Ivy, to disappear for a couple minutes while they are out hiking. She’s never out of sight for long and, at first, he didn’t think much about her absence as they were hiking near Lake Farmington on Nov. 14....

New Mexico public lands at risk as trapping season begins

Nov 2, 2020 | Outdoor Recreation Industry, Press Release, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Incidents Map, Trapping on Public Lands

For Immediate Release October 30, 2020 Contacts: Chris Smith, WildEarth Guardians, 505-395-6177, Jessica Johnson, Animal Protection Voters, 505-220-6656, Private, commercial traps will be hidden across BLM, Forest...
When tourists or their dogs step into traps, you can kiss new outdoor recreation industry goodbye

When tourists or their dogs step into traps, you can kiss new outdoor recreation industry goodbye

Apr 15, 2020 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Dog, Illegal Trapping, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Game Commission, Office of Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Opinion, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Tourism Industry, Trapping on Public Lands

By Sherry Robinson New Mexico wants the traveling public to think of the state as a destination for outdoor recreation. For those of us who hike, bike, fish, hunt, and golf, that seems pretty obvious. The tourism industry and economic developers are on board. However,...

New Mexico commission approves wildlife trapping changes

Jan 22, 2020 | Companion Animal, Dog, Mexican wolf, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Game Commission, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Roxy's Law, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

ALBUQUERQUE — Trappers now have to complete an education course and new restrictions will be imposed on setting wildlife traps and snares around designated trailheads and on select tracts of public lands in New Mexico under a measure adopted Friday by the State Game...

New Mexico Game Commission approves trapping, disregarding public opposition

Jan 18, 2020 | Bobcat, Fox, Mexican wolf, NM State Game Commission, Public Lands, Public Opinion, Roxy's Law, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

Wolves, pets remain at risk The New Mexico Game Commission approved trapping of bobcats, foxes, and other wildlife throughout the state on January 17. The decision reauthorizes the use of leghold traps, body-crushing traps, and strangulation snares that have killed...
Cruel or essential? Map details trapping incidents across New Mexico

Cruel or essential? Map details trapping incidents across New Mexico

Nov 17, 2019 | Coyote, Dog, National Forest, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Incidents Map, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Uncategorized, Wildlife

Map shows trapping incidents occurred in 22 counties in New Mexico Nogal resident Kathleen McDonald had climbed about 100 yards into the Lincoln National Forest when Jasper, her Golden retriever Jasper suddenly began yelping and crying. “I went running down and...

TrapFree New Mexico releases map cataloguing trapping incidents in New Mexico

Nov 4, 2019 | Dog, Illegal Trapping, Mexican wolf, NM Department of Game and Fish, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Press Release, Public Lands, Public Opinion, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Incidents Map, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Waste, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

For Immediate Release November 4, 2019 Contacts: Chris Smith, WildEarth Guardians, 505-395-6177, Mary Katherine Ray, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, 575-772-5655, Laura Bonar, Animal Protection of New Mexico &...
Coalition puts out online map of illegal trapping in N.M.

Interactive map tracks illegal trapping

Nov 3, 2019 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Bobcat, Coyote, Dog, Endangered Species, Fox, Illegal Trapping, Mexican wolf, NM Department of Game and Fish, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

Just in time for trapping season, a coalition calling itself Trap Free New Mexico is launching a new online interactive map that tracks incidences of illegal trapping and locations where dogs, Mexican gray wolves and even people have been caught in traps. Chris Smith,...

Editorial: Roxy’s case reveals trapping free-for-all; NM needs to ban it

Oct 28, 2019 | Dog, Editorial, Illegal Trapping, National Forest, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Game Commission, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Opinion, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping on Public Lands, Waste, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

In what world does a man charged with 34 counts of illegal trapping – brought to light by the gruesome strangling of a family pet in a snare as her owner tried in vain to free her – get off scot-free because the state bungled the case? New Mexico, that’s where....
Evidence mishandling leads to dismissal in trapping case

Evidence mishandling leads to dismissal in trapping case

Oct 17, 2019 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Cruelty, Dog, Illegal Trapping, Legislation, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping on Public Lands, Waste, Wildlife Management

The First Judicial District Attorney’s Office has dropped more than 30 counts of illegal trapping against a Chimayó man after a Magistrate Court judge found the state Game and Fish Department had failed to serve the man with a search warrant and then failed to save...

KRQE: Animal advocates call for change after dismissal of illegal trapping case

Oct 17, 2019 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Dog, Illegal Trapping, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping on Public Lands, Waste

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A Chimayo man was facing dozens of charges for illegally trapping animals after a family’s dog died in one of his traps. After a judge dismissed the case, animal advocates fear this will send the message that illegal trapping won’t be...
Editorial: Updated trapping regs just sidestepping gruesome NM reality

Editorial: Updated trapping regs just sidestepping gruesome NM reality

Sep 16, 2019 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Cruelty, Economic Analysis, Editorial, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Game Commission, Public Lands, Public Opinion, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife, Wildlife Management

On the face of it, the announcement last month the New Mexico Game and Fish Department is considering banning the use of poison, as well as traps and snares in four high-use areas and at hiking trailheads, sounded good. Because after all, that’s what smoke and mirrors...