LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) - A group of New Mexico sheriffs are frowning
upon a proposal to protect the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico.
They say it's a bad idea and could be dangerous. This comes after
New Mexico's two U.S. senators introduced legislation that calls for
designating about 780 square miles near Las Cruces as the Organ
Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. A coalition of border
sheriffs opposing the plan recently sent the senators a letter saying
the plan would leave the land vulnerable to illegal activity and make it
harder for deputies to access the area, leading to a rise in
cross-border crime. However, Sen. Martin Heinrich says the
proposal would improve law enforcement's ability to secure the border
region and allows ranchers to keep grazing livestock. The effort has been more than a decade in the making. The area would include eight new wilderness areas and would be overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.
A group led by Dona Ana County Sheriff Todd Garrison. Way to go sheriff!
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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