Oct 24, 2019 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Public Lands, Public Safety, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Waste, Wildlife
The Game Commission is considering minor changes to the trapping rule: they are inadequate. Another trapping season is looming in New Mexico after last year’s saw at least two dogs killed, a handful of others injured, and untold thousands of native wildlife trapped...
Oct 20, 2019 | Bobcat, Coyote, Cruelty, Deer, Fair Chase Hunting, Fox, Illegal Trapping, NM State Game Commission, Public Lands, Public Safety, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Waste, Wildlife
Albuquerque Journal Guest Column by SUZANNE REED Many of us New Mexicans are – or know – people who “fair chase” hunt on our public lands. Our state Department of Game & Fish (DGF) rules give over 80,000 licensed hunters seasonal opportunities to shoot wildlife...
Mar 4, 2019 | 2019 Legislative Session, Fur Trade, HB 366, Illegal Trapping, Public Lands, Roxy's Law, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Regulations, Uncategorized, Wildlife
NBCNews.com March 2, 2019 By Phil McCausland “I just think the tide has turned. There are too many people out there on those public lands, and it’s like we’re walking through a mine field,” said a New Mexico man whose dog died in a trap. An illegally-set steel...
Oct 10, 2018 | NM State Game Commission, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Public Opinion, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Wildlife
By Elizabeth Miller of the Santa Fe Reporter The state of New Mexico spent more than $32,000 to hold a series of meetings ostensibly to review trapping regulations and appease political stirrings that call for an end to the practice. Their sole output has been to...
Oct 22, 2011 | Bear, Bobcat, NM State Game Commission, Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations
October 2011 New Mexicans are increasingly moving toward a consensus that foothold trapping of furbearer animals ought to be more closely regulated — if not mostly banned, as our neighbors in Arizona did in 1994. Unfortunately, at the same time the New Mexico State...
