One time, years ago, four excited guys in a truck came roaring up to me while I was in front of our house. They were tracking/chasing an elk one of them had wounded on a ranch next door and ran onto our land.
The driver told me he wasn’t required to ask my permission to proceed tracking it on my property, but was being courteous by letting me know.
I told them to go ahead, and told how to find the two track through our place. I was taken aback at his understanding of NM hunting rules.
Recently I found this in the NMGF website:
“ Anyone who wounds or may have wounded any big-game species must go to the place where the animal sustained the wound or may have sustained the wound and make a reasonable attempt to track and kill the animal. This requirement does not authorize trespass on private land. Call 1-800-432-4263 for assistance recovering a wounded animal that enters private land.”
What would happen after a call to this phone number?
