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    Take Back Your Elk

    That has been one of our greatest frustrations in New Mexico. Our Game Commission has completely flipped the script on New Mexico residents. When it comes to tag allocations nothing happens unless the outfitters want it. And nothing happens that residents want unless outfitters want it. The...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    I should add that New Mexico also has 171k acres of private land in EPLUS unit wide. To choose EPLUS unit wide or ranch only is solely up to the landowner. This greatly skews to benefit of picking Unit Wide (public access) toward private interests because they are orders of magnitude more...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    In my opinion there are very good arguments that EPLUS does not pass the public trust sniff test. Here is some. If there exists an example where elk herds on private and public land are sustained, the wildlife agency charged with managing the elk is well funded and successful, and public access...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Well said. I would make the following observations to your comment. First, beneficiaries. In my opinion you properly make them the central figure because wildlife is a public trust asset. But I would argue that the “favored” by privatization are not beneficiaries at all. This is I think a key...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Wow. Brilliant write up!
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Thank you. I have tried to explain this concept quite a few times - that us New Mexicans are not anti-nonresident. We are anti-privatization. I think that most of us New Mexicans might be satisfied with greater share nonresident tags than the 10% of many or most western states if it was...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    That wildlife is not owned by landowners to do what they please with it is not in question. On one hand you argue that owners should be able to do whatever they want with what they own. I agree with this, within reason. You can’t build an unlicensed nuclear power plant on your property. But on...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Sure is. Possibly the most screwed by New Mexico’s outfitter draw set aside and landowner permit privatization is the DIY nonresidents. DIY (unguided) nonresidents only receive 1005 (2.8%) of elk tags out of the 36,162 tags. Since nonresidents can’t draw cow tags, all of these are bull tags so...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Well said!
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Landowners don’t have any “rights” to elk or other wildlife on their property. Other than the absolute right to control access to their land to allow or not allow hunting or anything else. The outfitting industry would not “dry up” without landowner permits and outfitter draw set aside public...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Certainly private permits that provide great private privilege and revenue from the NM public’s wildlife with no direct NM public benefit requirement doesn’t even come close to passing the public trust sniff test.
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Not to mention that wildlife is a public trust resource owned by only and all citizens of each state. Privatization of licenses to hunt the New Mexico public’s wildlife is a blatant violation of both the public trust doctrine and closely related North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. You...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    I have always held that it is amazing that even people that benefit from our government privatizing our wildlife have such low expectations of government meeting its obligations to the citizens it supposedly represent and transparency. But when you look at the numbers in our report it’s pretty...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    That is a good question. I don’t think they track it. The outfitter draw set aside was sold as a way to generate business for outfitters. And that business is good for all New Mexicans because of the jobs etc that it would create. But since the outfitter set aside was created the NM outfitting...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Your comment about the lack of transparency is spot on. For years me and others have simply asked the NM Game Commission to compel the Department of Game and Fish to issue an annual report detailing the disposition, public or private, resident or nonresident for all big game licenses sold in New...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    If you are unable to find the 40 acres Jesse mentioned, during 2021, 314 ranches of 50 or less acres received private elk permits through EPLUS, 253 of these are 20 acres or less, 98 are 10 acres or less, and 25 are 5 acres or less. Finding a small parcel with private landowner permits should...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Thanks for taking the time to let us talk about this important topic!
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    Take Back Your Elk

    The people of New Mexico do in fact own the wildlife of the state. Same as in every other state. Certainly our state officials don’t recognize that reality even though it is their irrefutable public trustee obligation to do so. They just ignore the most basic public trust principles.
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    NM Muzzloader Rules 2023

    I think that he Biologist’s (Stewart Liley) logic is correct. Wounding loss will go down (or at least stay flat) under the scopeless rule.
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    Proposal to eliminate non-resident sheep tags in New Mexico

    You are absolutely incorrect in your accusation. Here is the reasons why and how you are incorrect. First the proposal that I came up with and that we pushed to our game commission was a compromise between total lumping and no lumping. What we proposed and I pushed very very hard for was...

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