New Mexico Sportsmen/Trappers Need to Fight Back!

Once again wolves are the reason for this controversy and trapping ban that will take effect on November 1st, 2010 in New Mexico. The New Mexico Game Commission, The Wild Earth Guardians and The Center for Biological Diversity are claiming that the Mexican Gray Wolf is being unintentionally or (cruely) trapped by trappers.

Animal rights groups like the The Wild Earth Guardians and The Center for Biological Diversity are leading this ban and issued a formal request in June 2010 to stop all trapping in New Mexico. Saying that trapping is “The bone-crushing retort of a steel-jawed leghold trap is still legal on a part of the Mexican wolf’s habitat. These horrific restraints cause unbearable pain, but they also injure and maim. Some wolves even chew off their limbs to get free.” ”Traps are nasty, cruel devices. Mexican wolves, bobcats, coyotes, and foxes captured in body-gripping traps endure physiological trauma, dehydration, and exposure to extreme weather. Lobos that have been trapped and then released may sustain tissue damage and other injuries that can reduce their survivability, or increase the likelihood of their preying on domestic livestock because they are easier prey than the native wildlife, their natural preference.”

Click here for the full Wild Earth Guardians’ story. Click here for the full Center of Biological Diversity story.

Here’s what the New Mexico Game Commission issued about the trapping ban.

“Commencing November 1, 2010, for a minimum of six months, it shall be illegal to place, set or maintain any steel trap, conibear trap, foothold trap or snare anywhere within the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in New Mexico, public land which is comprised of the Gila and Apache National Forest, unless otherwise allowed by statute. The prohibition shall remain in place until the State Game Commission takes action based upon a Department study to assess the risks to Mexican gray wolves due to trapping and a determination if some methods of trapping could be allowed that pose minimal risk of injury to the Mexican gray wolf.”

On November 30th, 2007, Mexican Gray Wolves were spotted stalking children at Glenwood Playground in New Mexico. This of course has made parents very scared for their children’s lives and now kids in certain areas must sit in giant chicken coop like boxes while waiting for the school bus, to protect them from the wolves. There have also been many reports of parents giving their kids guns when they go out to play for protection against the wolves. View the full story here. Cattle, pets and horses are also continually falling prey to the Mexican Gray Wolf in New Mexico with reports of as many as 1500 cattle being killed by wolves.

Here’s what Larry Lightner has to say about the trapping ban. “Now, this is just my opinion, but it is also an opinion shared by many others, and it is this; the banning of leg-hold traps is NOT about the wolf. What it is really about is those folks who want a permanent ban on trapping and hunting of any kind, anywhere — the wolf is just a vehicle for them to git it done.”

Larry writes for the ’Glenwood Gazette’ out of Southern New Mexico and Arizona and ‘The Real Agenda’: Click here for the full story.

Here’s another article regarding this wolf controversy. Click here.

This ban is nothing more than a ploy to get all trapping/hunting eventually banned in the state of New Mexico which means us sportsmen keep losing more of our rights. It’s up to us sportsmen to take a stand and voice our opinions. Sportsmen please contact The New Mexico Game Commission and voice your disapproval of this ban and help us fight for our rights. – Hunters Against PETA

Here’s New Mexico’s Game Commission/Department contact info:

Commission Mailing addresses:
Jim McClintic
Chairman
PO Box 21027
Albuquerque, NM 87154
jmsconst@comcast.net

Sandy Buffett
Vice-Chair
320 Aztec St Suite B
Santa Fe, NM 87501
sandyNMGC@gmail.com

Tom Arvas
7905 Spain NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
tomarvas@hotmail.com

M.H. “Dutch” Salmon
PO Box 878
Silver City, NM 88062
dutch@high-lonesomebooks.com

Gary Fonay
5333 North Baggett
Hobbs, NM 88242
GWFonay@aol.com

Kent Salazar
1621 Vassar Drive SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
kentsala@aol.com

Thomas “Dick” Salopek
975 Holcomb Road
Las Cruces, NM 88007
dicksalopek@hotmail.com

Game Department addresses:
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Wildlife Management Division
1 Wildlife Way
Santa Fe, NM 87507
nmdeptofgameandfish@state.nm.us

http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com

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