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...