Fishing and Hunting License Fees Pay Bills, Environmentalists Want to Divert Game and Fish Funds to Endangered Species

Fly fisherman nets a brown trout on San Juan River
KRQE - Environmentalists are concerned that reorganizing the New Mexico Game and Fish Department could spell trouble for the state's nongame animals and programs aimed at conserving threatened and endangered species.
Not so, the agency says. A lightning rod for controversy, the department is again sitting at the center of a longstanding debate over its mission and how it balances conservation and the interests of hunters and anglers whose license fees pay for much of the department's work. Read full story here: News New Mexico

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