I was reading on another blog site last week, when I came across an article from the Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico. Land owners there are being given the opportunity to sell kill tags for hunts on their property.
Farmers near Roswell might get the opportunity to sell antelope tags to hunters this year. Evidently the animals are destroying the farmers crops and the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish is planning to help them reduce the herd by allowing them to sell the tags. Hunters are upset, thinking that the farmers have no right to profit from a state resource. Farmers on the other hand feel they should be able to recoup some of their losses from the antelope eating their crops.
This is a fine line to walk. I do think farmers have the right to charge someone to hunt their land, but to actually sell the tags is another story. I assume those tags are good only for that parcel of land, the story didn’t say so one way or the other. But I don’t think that the farmers should profit from a state resource either. Maybe the Dept. of Game and Fish should issue the kill tags and let the farmers charge for the access to their property.
Now since this is near Roswell, maybe they could have a UFO fly in and take the antelope away!
