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New Mexico Political Report
Posted inPublic Lands, Quick Reads

Commission votes for more bear hunting, expanding trapping of cougars

Environmental and animal rights groups are criticizing the New Mexico Game Commission’s Thursday decisions on cougar trapping and bear hunting. The commission voted in Santa Fe to allow cougar trapping on state trust and private land and also voted to increase the amount of bears that can be hunted each year. The votes were both unanimous. […]