Amazing what we pay our governments to do.
Here in NM, they paid professional hunters to go onto White Sands National Monument and kill the gemsbok (oryx). I have to give them credit though, because first they tried to herd them off range. After a couple of horses got gored, they decided that wasn't such a good idea. Oryx are the only antelope documented to have killed lions. On the MIssle range, hunters pay $300 (resident) or $1800 out of state for the priviledge of hunting them.
In the Grand Canyon, one of the premier trout fisheries in the world, the Fish & Wildlife idiots shocked the fish and threw the trout up on the bank to die to protect a couple of endangered species that had survived there for 30 years after Glen Canyon Dam.
Somehow, a few Tahr were established on Mt. Tayor, NM. There is an open season on them. Wolves and bear are what should be open season.
