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We are Grant County, New Mexico citizens working alongside others in the state to focus public attention on the fact that steel-jaw leghold traps, steel-wire snares and other barbaric body-gripping animal traps are secreted all over the Gila National Forest and on other public lands in the state.

These traps are indiscriminate and unnecessarily cruel to companion animals and endangered species, as well as to their intended victims.

We hope this public attention will lead to banning these traps from public lands.

Report Trap Encounters

The Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter is compiling information about trapping incidents. If you have an encounter with a trap on public lands in New Mexico, please report your experience to them at

notraps@kitcarson.net.

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The New Mexico State Game Commission is responsible for hunting, fishing and trapping regulations in the state. It has the authority to, among other things, regulate, restrict or ban the use of cruel traps on all public lands within the state.

Call and write a letter to each of the game commissioners and politely let them know that you are opposed to the use of steel-jaw leghold, snare and all other cruel body-catching type traps on public lands. If the commissioners do not hear from you, the only voices they'll hear -- and pay attention to -- is that of the trappers.

Contact Game Commissioners at:

Jim McClintic, Chairman	Post Office Box 21027 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87154 Work: (505) 271-4550 Fax: (505) 271-2472
Sandy Buffett, Vice-Chair	320 Aztec Street, Suite B Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Fax: (505) 986-0339 sandyNMGC@gmail.com
Tom Arvas	7905 Spain, NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109 Work: (505) 293-3515
M.H. "Dutch" Salmon	Post Office Box 878 Silver City, New Mexico 88062 Work: (575) 388-3763 Fax: (575) 388-5705 dutch@high-lonesomebooks.com
Alfredo Montoya	Post Office Box 856 San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico 87566 Home: (505) 852-2551
Kent Salazar	1621 Vassar Drive, SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 Home: (505) 242-6125 Work: (505) 242-6125 / 299-5404 Ext. 1004 kentsala@aol.com
Thomas "Dick" Salopek	975 Holcomb Road Las Cruces, NM 88007 Home: (505) 220-7083 DickSalopek@hotmail.com

Click here to go to the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish website.