Randall Williams
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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could be responsible for any nuisances caused by elk.
So it backfired on that dude.
Yeah, and the state, so the quotes from the decision are like reaffirmed that the people own the elk, the state manages them.
And it sort of says the elk exist, the elk have a right to be there.
They say because the state is viewed as the trustee for and not an owner of wildlife,
Governments that regulate the well-being of wildlife do not have reliability for the actions of that wildlife.
And it also goes on to say the regulations that these guys are complaining about.
It says, none of the regulations require or authorize elk on private properties, nor do they prevent property owners from building fences to keep them out.
So in some ways, the court is pushing back against
sort of entitlement by landowners to compensation for the wildlife.
And it kind of redraws a bit the boundaries of that relationship, right?
Because a lot of these privatization of tags, they're a product of the acknowledgement that landowners do sustain wildlife, and that's legitimate.
But the state is kind of drawing a line, or the court is sort of drawing a line in the sand there.
And I don't know the answer.
That's where a lot of these conversations end up.
It's like there are tools available in the toolbox.
It's just some landowners don't want to utilize public hunting pressure.
Yeah, and so the other story that ties to this, and this is more directly related to the question of tag allocation, is that on April 29th,
lawmakers in New Mexico wrote to the Attorney General about two questions they had about the current TAG allocation system, noting that it seems to be in, quote, significant tension with the anti-donation clause in the state constitution.
And New Mexico's constitution is an anti-donation clause that prohibits the state and other governing bodies from making donations of public funds or property
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