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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    And I know this is going to come as quite a shock. But Mr. Stanley, the civic minded landowner who's only selling your elk(~250 of em a year) to put food on his table, isn't just claiming those elk as his to sell. It appears he's also been working overtime to take public land access away from...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    I've heard rumors that between the 3 ted turner ranches, they represent about 250 tags. But the ranch names and contacts are not listed as Vermejo, Ladder, or Armendaris in that document. Someone more familiar with who's running those operations would have to parse that out. But let me assure...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Interesting factoid, someone please correct me if my numbers are wrong. https://assets.nationbuilder.com/backcountryhunters/pages/11295/attachments/original/1648069046/EPLUS-Landowner-List-PMZ.pdf?1648069046 All the parcels My. Stanley owns have the red markers. They should total around...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    The most recent data I can find is 2021, where there were 8,967 tags issued in the E-plus sytem. a grand total of 408 or 4.5% of them were issued for habitat incentives. Scroll to bottom to see the explicitly defined habitat incentive tags...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    None of those things allow landowners to profit off the publicly owned elk. That is what this program is really all about. But on that note, let’s privatize some other public resources, like water and air. If they don’t currently serve private interests, then what good are they?
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    School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country

    First time I heard a Llama scream, I was about 3 feet from its face and it caught me by such a surprise I just about shat my pants. Scared me more than a bear ever has.
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    School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country

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    School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country

    I’ve spent some time backpacked into griz country solo. Never used a fence, but it’s been on my list to start considering. Don’t over think it or freak yourself out. Use common sense. Keep a clean camp. Nothing in your tent that would attract a bear. All smelly stuff goes in a dry sac in a...
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    School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country

    Scoped rifles can be almost useless at night when trying to get on a bear in my experience. I had a griz at 40-50 yards in some regrowth on a steep mountain, with 2 headlamps in his direction. I would’ve been lucky to get one shot off if he came out of the regrowth at a good clip. Even at 3x...
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    The Rinella Effect

    All spot burning on HT 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Delete that chit.
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    I fail to see how your willingness to make poor financial decisions justifies the Eplus system.
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    FYI, every single landowner in that table drew a tag. So, whatever SCR draw odds are, every single acreage in that table drew a tag. 244 were 20 acres or under 548 were 50 acres or under 846 were 100 acres of under 87 landowners got over 20 tags. 20 landowners got over 50 tags one landowner...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Tell that to a New Mexico resident. I'd guess there was not a 99.98% discount for being a NM resident? I know there are some tags that go for that low, but my understanding is that is the bottom end, and it only goes up from there. If for some reason, $5,000 for a single elk tag is a...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    40% of all NM elk tags are privatized, aka “transferable”. We can guess how many of those are affordable to everyday New Mexicans… IIRC, something like 70% of New Mexico Resident applicants get turned down in the resident draw for an elk tag every year. New Mexico’s system is very beneficial...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Just over 2,000 landowners vying for ~12,000+ elk tags available to them through outfitter set asides and the Eplus system. Are you saying the drawing odds for those SCR landowners is anything less than stellar?
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Looks like more than "one or two" to me... https://assets.nationbuilder.com/backcountryhunters/pages/11295/attachments/original/1648069046/EPLUS-Landowner-List-PMZ.pdf?1648069046
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    This is the crux of these discussions in my view. Landowners want to complain about elk problems, but won't let public hunters on to help solve the problem. When the landowner wants to sell property, elk (and wildlife) are the first thing he advertises as a selling point to his property...
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    Safari Club International supports WEST Act to withdraw Public land rule

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    CWD Confirmed in California Deer Population

    California has tested over 6000 animals since the early 2000s IIRC. Don't quote me on that. But to your question, I can't say for sure. Could have been infectious material transported to CA by other vectors. For example humans could've dumped a positive carcass from another state near this...
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    CWD Confirmed in California Deer Population

    With sheep there was 2 different kinds of scrapie, "classical" and "atypical". The atypical is a sporadic or spontaneous form of this disease. Meaning there is no infection source (that we know of) so to speak, it just sporadically appears in the sheep population. Atypical scrapie also...
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