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Tell Gov. Martinez: Cougars and bears deserve better

Photo of a black bear cub for the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter website.
Bears and Cougars are part of New Mexico’s natural heritage. They are beautiful and important animals in nature. But the New Mexico Game Commission has approved the use of painful and cruel traps and snares on private land and on 9 million acres of state trust land to kill cougars and has increased — again — the number of bears that trophy hunters can kill in our state. Click here to tell Gov. Martinez: Your Game Commission has gone too ...
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Chapter statement on Game Commission’s cougar, bear vote

Photo of Brown Bear for Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter website
SANTA FE, N.M. — On Aug. 27, the New Mexico Game Commission voted to approve trapping for cougars on 9 million acres of state trust land and private land throughout New Mexico. The commission also voted to increase bear-hunting quotas. Both decisions came without sufficient scientific evidence and in the face of overwhelming public opposition. More than 1,000 New Mexicans sent written comments and several hundred people came to Thursday’s meeting to ask the Commission not to adopt New Mexico ...