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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Conflicted Wildlife Trustees (Commissioners)

    Absolutely correct. In the example Randy used as an example of massive conflict of interest with the chair of the NM Game Commission being Hunting Director for a private landowner that was integral to the attempt to block state constitutionally guaranteed access to stream Randy didn’t even...
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Conflicted Wildlife Trustees (Commissioners)

    That’s an exceedingly weak argument for removing the tags from the resident public domain. Once that is done, a non beneficiary is paid out of the trust. There is only one beneficiary. All residents equally. If a trustee pays out of a private trust to a non benificiary they most show that...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    By your same logic states should give all their buildings and facilities to private real estate firms, free of charge, and collect and pocket the rent money. Think of all the money that would be made. Hell, all governments should give all their assets to private interests. There would be so much...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Right. The norm in the west is that tag numbers are calculated based on the population in an entire GMU. The tags are issued by public process. Hunters that are awarded the tags and landowners work out access. And since the tags are public instead of private like in NM the price for access is...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Great comment! You have a wonderful understanding of the situation in New Mexico. EPLUS is not a biological construct. It doesn’t even do the one thing it purports to do - incentivize landowners to allow more elk to be on the landscape. Since landowners have received landowner permits at a rate...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    I think you got lost on the way to monster mulies or something?
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    New Mexico Pronghorn Privatization

    How did you get the harvest reports sorted to calculate the R/NR division? When I covert from the PDFs they post to spreadsheets they columns blow up. It’s a ton of work to manually correct the data columns and rows. I love the fact that you go through the trouble to compile the data. It is...
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    New Mexico Pronghorn Privatization

    You make a good point that I try but often fail to elaborate. It is not the fact that so many tags in NM are nonresident that is disturbing per se. It is what causes it. Privatization. When a tag is sold in a private market to the highest bidder tye 300 million or so nonresidents are going to...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    lol. It really pisses me off. Wildlife is uniquely a state natural resource. It’s a helluva a way to allocate the benefits thereof. Anyone that believes in the foundational principles of the nation should be disturbed by this rent-seeking behavior.
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    Take Back Your Elk

    You are splitting hairs. New Mexico issues far more transferable private landowner elk tags than all other western states combined. End of story. Who cares about this one instance and post about it? It is irrelevant. We have maybe 3% or 4% of the all the elk tags in the west. And 65% or so...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Collectively the 6 intermountain west states of NM, AZ, UT, CO, NV, and MT issue 515.2k total elk licenses. This includes only 19.2k transferable (sellable) private landowner elk tags. New Mexico issued 36.6k (7%) of the elk tags but an astounding 13.8k (72%) of the private landowner tags...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Here ya go. Straight from NMDGFs 2021 EPLUS landowner list 40 acres, 3 elk permit authorizations. It’s in GMU 15. The Gila. Unit wide permits. 40 acres of private land given 3 permits valid to hunt the entire approx million acres of the 77% public land GMU. A mature bull, a cow, and an ES...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    I’ve never seen anyone say a 40 acre tract got 15 tags. But I’ve seen 40 acres get 3 tags before. However, in the secondary management zone private land tags are unlimited. A 15 acre property could issue 200 tags if it wanted to.
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    Take Back Your Elk

    Perhaps you are correct about the acreage? I went back and forth with the guy at NMDGF about the figure several times and he never corrected it. You are wrong that “I know it” and am running with it. I am very careful to not cook numbers to support my opinions. I know it would be discovered...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    What you miss in your argument is that a resident landowners etc have no special or enhanced beneficiary status beyond every other New Mexican. As soon as the state gives them the permit to keep, sell, barter they are no longer within their resident entitlement. By your argument NM could give...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    I think NM public trustees are vulnerable because of the degree and scale of privatization they have created. EPLUS is like a trustee for a simple private trust paying $10,000 an hour to an accountant. Accounting services are necessary and benefit the trust beneficiaries. But they can be had...
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    Take Back Your Elk

    I guarantee that NM Trustees will be sued over EPLUS within the next ten years. Unless they implement serious reform.
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    Take Back Your Elk

    There are many public trustees. For instance, The game commission as a whole and as individuals function as public trustees. A public trust suit against EPLUS would probably name the game commission because EPLUS is a game commission rule. Technically such a suit would probably be over the ElK...
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    Take Back Your Elk

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