Senior Western Correspondent Lance Stapleton has, as promised, updated last month’s report on New Mexico, where the A-PLUS (Antelope Private Lands Use System) program was under attack by the New Mexico Wildlife Federation:
“The proposal supported by the Federation was to issue only one free antelope license to enrolled landowners regardless of the size of the ranch, with the balance of the antelope licenses issued through public drawing. Historically, around 70 percent of the permits went to landowners. Furthermore, the second “poisoned arrow” aimed at landowners and nonresidents was that the Federation also proposed to cap the number of permits available to nonresidents in the drawing at no more than 10 percent....
