NM game and fish director to resign

The director of New Mexico’s Game and Fish Department announced his resignation Wednesday, but the department remained tightlipped about his departure. Word that Jim Lane would be stepping down was first made public after a special, closed meeting held by the Game Commission in Albuquerque. The meeting agenda did not list any specifics, only that commissioners would be discussing personnel issues involving the hiring, promotion, resignation or investigation of several employees. The department released a statement Wednesday afternoon that did not mention Lane and said only that Assistant Director R.J. Kirkpatrick would soon begin serving as acting director. Lane did not return messages seeking comment that were left at his office. Lane was selected by the commission to serve as director in October 2011. He had worked previously as the chief of the department’s Wildlife Management Division...more