{"id":1302,"date":"2012-11-16T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2012-11-16T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:21:13","slug":"ray-powell-shrinks-coyote-hunt-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Ray Powell Shrinks Coyote Hunt Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/11\/16\/news\/state-shrinks-coyote-hunt-areas.html\">ABQJournal Online \u00c2\u00bb State Shrinks Coyote Hunt Areas<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The two-day, statewide contest \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in which 60 teams paid $50 each to try to bag the most coyote carcasses \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has sparked opposition from people all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, state Land Commissioner Ray Powell announced that state trust lands, about 13 million acres across the state, are off limits, because the participants do not have a permit or lease.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153These contests are about personal profit, animal cruelty, and the severe disruption of the delicate balance of this desert ecosystem,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Powell in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>He added: <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is time to outlaw this highly destructive activity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n<p>[Gunhawk Firearms owner Mark Chavez ] and other contest advocates argue that the contest will help cull the predatory coyote population.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/11\/16\/news\/state-shrinks-coyote-hunt-areas.html\">ABQJournal Online \u00c2\u00bb State Shrinks Coyote Hunt Areas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Ray Powell. Mark Chavez talks as if he wants to help the environment. However, he took up this contest when Calibers cancelled it over public outrage. At that time, Chavez said he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want environmentalists to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153win\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and this was about gun rights.So, which is it? peace, <em>mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQJournal Online \u00c2\u00bb State Shrinks Coyote Hunt Areas The two-day, statewide contest \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in which 60 teams paid $50 each to try to bag the most coyote carcasses \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has sparked opposition from people all over the country. On Thursday, state Land Commissioner Ray Powell announced that state trust lands, about 13 million acres across &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ray Powell Shrinks Coyote Hunt Areas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[15,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newmexico","category-wildlands","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}