Meetings Will Address Proposed Big-Game Hunting Rule Changes

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RATON -- The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish will conduct open-house meetings in northern New Mexico to receive public comments about the proposed big-game hunting rules that will affect the 2009-2011 seasons.

Proposed adjustments to the existing rules include changes to permit numbers, hunt dates and Game Management Unit boundary changes that will go into affect April 1, 2009.  These include proposed boundary changes in Units 5B, 51 and 41.

The meetings will be in the following locations:

    * Canjilon: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 19 at the Canjilon Forest Service office.

    * Raton: 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. July 26 at the Raton Game and Fish Office.

    * Taos: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 26 at the Taos Convention Center, 120 Civic Plaza Drive.

    * Las Vegas: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 9 at Highlands University, in the Leveo Sanchez lecture hall in the Donnelly Library, room G35.

A summary of the proposed changes can be found online at http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/documents/public_comment.htm 

If you do not have access to the internet please contact the Raton Game and Fish Office at 445-2311 for a copy of this summary.

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