ATTENTION ELK HUNTERS

Southwest Elk Hunters, Alert, Elk being decimated in wolf areas: See link for photo's.

It is vital that those of you who value your elk hunting in the Gila come to this meeting on Thursday, March 15th at the Elks Lodge on Elks Drive here in Las Cruces. We will start the meeting promptly at 7:00 pm.

This wolf recovery program in the Gila and Apache Sitgreaves National Forests is a disaster. Ranchers are losing livestock on a daily basis. Horses have been killed and consumed right in the corrals in front of barns. Dogs are being attacked and killed right in the front yards of people's homes. The Superintendent of Schools in Catron County is looking for funding to construct enclosures at bus stops so kids waiting for the school bus can be safe.

Hunters need to know that elk are being killed at an alarming rate. We will hear recorded messages from Mark Miller, Tom Klumker, Jess Carey, Don Gatlin, Jim Haught, Jim Blair, Gene Whetten, Jack Diamond, Becky Campbell, Laura Schneberger and others.

I have asked them to tell you what they think you ought to know about the wolf recovery program and the impact it is having on the elk population in the Gila TODAY!!!!!! Further, I have asked them to project out for the next two to five years and give you their assessment of what will become of the elk if this absurd program is allowed to continue.

The New Mexico Game Commission will meet at the Best Western Mesilla Valley Inn from 9:00 am til 5:00 pm on Wednesday, March 28. Everyone needs to be there and ask the questions you need answered. I hope to create a huge upswell of people who are fed up with this ridiculous experiment with wolves.

Please come to the meeting at the Elks Lodge on March 15 and plan on attending the Game Commission meeting on March 28.

I have attached a flyer for the meeting you can print and pass out to people. I also attached a legislature report produced by Laura Schneberger which we have passed out to 80 or so of our state legislators in Santa Fe. Senator Komadina introduced a bill that will hold the IFT (Interagency Field Team) accountable for managing these wolves. It passed the Conservation Committee today and is headed for Judiciary committee....

Joe Delk
Field Representative
Paragon Foundation
H 505-524-1233
C 505-644-3082