{"id":1640,"date":"2015-08-27T18:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2015-08-27T18:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:45:46","slug":"nm-game-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"NM Game Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a clean slate at the New Mexico Game Commission. All of these people should go. Their successors should include someone from a city, someone who enjoys hiking without killing. Instead, we have hunters, guides, ranchers, people in oil, people whose livelihood and pleasure derive from exploiting public land for profit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Mexico State Game Commissioners, from left:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nmgamecommission.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nmgamecommission-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"nm game commission\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nmgamecommission-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nmgamecommission-50x28.jpg 50w, http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nmgamecommission.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexa Sandoval, Director<br \/>\nBob Ricklefs,<br \/>\nThomas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dick\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Salopek,<br \/>\nPaul M. Kienzle III, Chairman,<br \/>\nWilliam \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Montoya, Vice Chairman,<br \/>\nElizabeth Atkinson Ryan,<br \/>\nRalph Ramos, and<br \/>\nRobert Espinoza, Sr. <\/p>\n<p>listen during their meeting at the Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, N.M. Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. The New Mexico Game Commission has approved new hunting limits for bears and cougars around the state despite the protests of environmental groups. (Clyde Mueller\/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/photos\/alexa-sandoval-director-mexico-department-game-fish-mexico-photo-191052520.html\">article link<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Believe me, I&#8217;d love to indulge in Wanted posters of these folks and coy references to hunting them down, but I won&#8217;t indulge in the violence they endorse. I wish them peaceful lives out of public &#8220;service.&#8221; If I see one of them, I will flip him or her off. If I have mustard at hand, I will throw it on them. A better man would stand and stare and shake his head at their shame.<\/p>\n<p>Flash mob, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a clean slate at the New Mexico Game Commission. All of these people should go. Their successors should include someone from a city, someone who enjoys hiking without killing. Instead, we have hunters, guides, ranchers, people in oil, people whose livelihood and pleasure derive from exploiting public land for profit. New Mexico &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NM Game Commission<\/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":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlands","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}