NM game director's hunting license revoked The head of the New Mexico Game and Fish Department has had his hunting rights temporarily taken away. The Game Commission voted Thursday to revoke director Bruce Thompson's hunting license for two years. Thompson was accused of shooting a deer on private land during a hunt in southeastern New Mexico last November. It's illegal to hunt on private property in New Mexico without permission from the landowner. Thompson has said he believed he was on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land, based on coordinates entered in his global positioning system unit. Thompson was convicted earlier this year of unlawful hunting and illegal possession of a deer. He was ordered to serve 182 days of unsupervised probation and pay fines as a result of his no contest plea to the charges.