El Paso Hueco Tanks area Aoudad

[BBob]

Anybody actively hunt or know much about the Aoudad situation around El Paso? More specifically the Hueco Tanks area? They’re getting pretty overrun out there (ravaging the park) and I’m puzzled as to why they haven’t been hit harder. I know the park can’t be hunted but what’s the situation outside the park?

 

[BBob]

To answer my own question: Typical for TX, It’s near 100% private or res land so it can’t be freely hunted without permission from dozens of small land owners.

 

[Bugger]

OnX shows that the park property might extend around the back side of a chunk of private into a couple decent draws and canyons. Not sure why they don’t have a hunt like many other state parks if the aoudad are that overrun. But then you’d still have a 1% draw chance like most other exotic draws in the state.

 

[Mojave]

There is no way to kill them without trespassing. I looked into this over the 5 years I lived in Las Cruces, but couldn't figure it out.

You can buy an OTC tag for New Mexico, but I don't think you can get close enough to that area to make a dent.