New Mexico Bear and Cougar hunting under attack!

[dtrkyman]

Our state’s hunting traditions are under attack and hunters need to speak up now. Anti-hunting groups are flooding the New Mexico State Game Commission with comments opposing all bear and cougar hunting. The comments are coming in as the commission is considering a new rule to set hunting seasons and other regs for the animals over the next four years. ​

The game commission is likely to adopt a proposed rule drafted by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish biologists that will allow continued hunting. The problem is, the anti-hunting comments on the bear and cougar rule are only a warm-up for anti-hunters. Game Commissioners need to hear from New Mexican hunters! Click HERE to submit a comment in favor of responsible predator hunt programs and the scientific management proposal submitted by game department biologists.​

Once the game commission allows continued bear and cougar hunting in this rule cycle, anti-hunters intend to take their case straight to the New Mexico State Legislature. They intend to tell lawmakers that the game commission ignored the public comments it received opposing bear and cougar hunting to support their request that the legislature itself take action. Two years ago, the legislature narrowly voted to outlaw trapping on public lands. The groups that pushed the bill latched on to the tragic case of a dog that was killed by a poacher’s snare in a recreation area that already was closed to legal trapping to make their case. The fact that legal trapping had nothing to do with the dog’s death didn’t stop the animal-rights activists. Most hunters aren’t trappers. And although the New Mexico Wildlife Federation testified in the New Mexico legislature against the trapping ban, few hunters spoke up against it. The NMWF expects to see a push from anti-hunters to try to get the legislature in 2025 to outlaw hunting bears and lions with hounds. Again, most hunters don’t hunt with hounds, and anti-hunters are counting on continued complacency among hunters to continue their divide-and-conquer strategy against our hunting traditions. If the anti-hunters are successful in outlawing hunting with hounds, what’s next? Outlawing hunting ducks with retrievers? Outlawing hunting quail with pointers? Hunters need to stick together and realize what we’re up against. Don’t bet that the anti-hunters won’t turn their attention to your favorite form of hunting eventually if we don’t stand together. As hunters, we need to oppose the anti-hunters’ approach of using emotional appeals to chip away at our state’s responsible hunting programs and traditions in the legislature. Whether or not you hunt bear and cougars – comment on the pending bear and cougar rule. Let the game commission know that you support the scientific management proposal submitted by game department biologists and the continuation of scientific predator management programs in our state. Now is the time to speak up - comment on the bear and cougar rule TODAY. Copied this from my email, if links do not work got to NM game and fish! We already lost public land trapping!​

 

[roadrunner]

Done.

It's too bad we do not have a right to hunt codified in the State Constitution...

 

[Brooks]

Done

 

[Bubblehide]

Get Howl involved

 

[butcherboy]

Email sent

 

[Rusty Shackelford]

Done thanks for sharing

 

[NateO 77]

This is exactly what has happened to Washington state. Hopefully you will get more hunters to speak up before it’s too late

 

[RuggedYogi]

Definitely spreading the word on this one.

 

[DenimChicken]

Welcome to the Washington party! Sorry to see this.

 

[Dan Plantz]

​ Our state’s hunting traditions are under attack and hunters need to speak up now. Anti-hunting groups are flooding the New Mexico State Game Commission with comments opposing all bear and cougar hunting. The comments are coming in as the commission is considering a new rule to set hunting seasons and other regs for the animals over the next four years.​

​ The game commission is likely to adopt a proposed rule drafted by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish biologists that will allow continued hunting. The problem is, the anti-hunting comments on the bear and cougar rule are only a warm-up for anti-hunters. Game Commissioners need to hear from New Mexican hunters! Click HERE to submit a comment in favor of responsible predator hunt programs and the scientific management proposal submitted by game department biologists.​

​ Once the game commission allows continued bear and cougar hunting in this rule cycle, anti-hunters intend to take their case straight to the New Mexico State Legislature. They intend to tell lawmakers that the game commission ignored the public comments it received opposing bear and cougar hunting to support their request that the legislature itself take action. Two years ago, the legislature narrowly voted to outlaw trapping on public lands. The groups that pushed the bill latched on to the tragic case of a dog that was killed by a poacher’s snare in a recreation area that already was closed to legal trapping to make their case. The fact that legal trapping had nothing to do with the dog’s death didn’t stop the animal-rights activists. Most hunters aren’t trappers. And although the New Mexico Wildlife Federation testified in the New Mexico legislature against the trapping ban, few hunters spoke up against it. The NMWF expects to see a push from anti-hunters to try to get the legislature in 2025 to outlaw hunting bears and lions with hounds. Again, most hunters don’t hunt with hounds, and anti-hunters are counting on continued complacency among hunters to continue their divide-and-conquer strategy against our hunting traditions. If the anti-hunters are successful in outlawing hunting with hounds, what’s next? Outlawing hunting ducks with retrievers? Outlawing hunting quail with pointers? Hunters need to stick together and realize what we’re up against. Don’t bet that the anti-hunters won’t turn their attention to your favorite form of hunting eventually if we don’t stand together. As hunters, we need to oppose the anti-hunters’ approach of using emotional appeals to chip away at our state’s responsible hunting programs and traditions in the legislature. Whether or not you hunt bear and cougars – comment on the pending bear and cougar rule. Let the game commission know that you support the scientific management proposal submitted by game department biologists and the continuation of scientific predator management programs in our state. Now is the time to speak up - comment on the bear and cougar rule TODAY. Copied this from my email, if links do not work got to NM game and fish! We already lost public land trapping!​

Well said

 

[dtrkyman]

Agreed, I copied it.

But glad to see the response, we already lost trapping and this liberal run state is in trouble, the cities are expanding and population is growing rapidly with plenty of the anti type!

 

[resident vs nonresident]

Done. With a personal polite n direct message

 

[Darryle]

I have already emailed about the bears, y'all can have the old horny women

 

[logem]

I commented. Thanks for bring this to attention.

 

[dtrkyman]

Keep at it fellas.


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[TheYukiYama]

Any updates on which direction this has gone since then? I lived in NM for a short time years ago. Wouldn’t have expected this…

 

[Beendare]

Done...sent, good luck.

To whom it may concern,

We have seen horrible consequences in other states when the special interest groups take precedent over Scientific wildlife management. Letting predator species go unchecked and unmanaged has had catastrophic effects. I have personal experience with the huge expense of lion control in CA- it’s expensive and a big drain on the F&G resources. Bear populations have exploded in the Sierra Nevada mountains creating millions in property damage.

Ca bowed to the anti hunting crowd…and now the consequences are enormous in $$$, property loss and the detriment of other species- a triple whammy. Who are these people that disregard scientific wildlife management? How do you manage an entire ecosystem- but then let deadly predator species go completely unchecked?

Hopefully common sense and wildlife professionals will prevail.

 

[elk hunter 52]

Thank you for this information!