NM's flawed EPLUS system privatizes elk hunting

<b>By Jesse Deubel, Albuquerque Journal</b>
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Problems with New Mexico’s elk management system go far beyond the information presented in Alaina Mencinger’s Sept. 25 report, “Frustrated landowners sue state over damage caused by elk.”
Mencinger reported on ranchers suing over New Mexico’s so-called EPLUS system — Elk Private Land Use System. I agree with the ranchers quoted that New Mexico’s system of elk management is broken, but for different reasons.

New Mexico’s wildlife belongs to all the people of the state – not just to landowners and not just to the wealthy. Yet EPLUS privatizes our elk and even privatizes thousands of public land hunts. No other state allows this.

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