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Opening More Public Land to Hunters

April 17, 2020
A large group of birds stand and water and hover among desert brush.

April 17, 2020 – In early April, the Trump administration announced plans to open more than 2.3 million acres of wildlife refuges and hatcheries to hunting and fishing. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service’s press release called it “the single largest expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities” in the agency’s history, and the proposal will…

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COVID-19 in Southern NM, Wildlife Policy, The Line

April 16, 2020
A purple sunset viewed with a very far vanishing point.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Laura Paskus continues with her series of interviews with journalists around the state as they cover COVID-19 in their communities. Algernon D’Ammassa, a reporter with the Las Cruces Sun-News who lives in Deming, has been covering the pandemic crisis in Southern New Mexico. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales talks…

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