{"id":579,"date":"2005-03-01T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/23-square-miles-for-canned-hunting-of-our-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T22:19:10","slug":"23-square-miles-for-canned-hunting-of-our-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/23-square-miles-for-canned-hunting-of-our-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Square Miles for Canned Hunting of OUR Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Larger Game Parks Approved in Senate<\/a> By Barry Massey, The Associated Press<\/p>\n

SANTA FE? Larger private game parks could be established in New Mexico under a measure approved Monday by the Senate.<\/p>\n

The bill, (SB 337), would allow ranchers or others<\/i> to operate game parks of up to 15,000 acres? about 23 square miles. Currently, the limit is 3,200 acres.<\/b><\/p>\n

At a game park, people pay a fee to hunt animals, such as elk. The game park must be enclosed by a fence.<\/p>\n

The Senate passed the bill on a 32-8 vote and sent it to the House for consideration.<\/p>\n

The measure’s sponsor, Sen. Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, said game parks were “another type of economic development to be used to increase the return that has been dwindling from agricultural properties in New Mexico.”<\/p>\n

“There are becoming fewer and fewer family farms, family ranches. This gives them another opportunity for a crop,” said Jennings.<\/p>\n

Sen. Leonard Tsosie, D-Crownpoint, expressed concerns that fencing in large areas of private land could affect free-ranging and migratory wildlife.<\/p>\n

“These are wildlife that belong to the state of New Mexico that would end up being captured by these game parks,”<\/b> said Tsosie.<\/p>\n

Voting against the measure were Tsosie and Sens. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque; Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque; Michael Sanchez, D-Belen; John Grubesic, D-Santa Fe; Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque; Sue Wilson Beffort, R-Sandia Park; and Phil Griego, D-San Jose.
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\nTrack SB337<\/a>
\nINCREASE GAME & FISH PARKS MAXIMUM ACREAGE
\nSponsor: Timothy Z. Jennings
\nCurrent Location: House Intro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Larger Game Parks Approved in Senate By Barry Massey, The Associated Press SANTA FE? Larger private game parks could be established in New Mexico under a measure approved Monday by the Senate. The bill, (SB 337), would allow ranchers or others to operate game parks of up to 15,000 acres? about 23 square miles. … Continue reading 23 Square Miles for Canned Hunting of OUR Wildlife<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}