CWD in NM

[outdoorsdude]

Got a notification from the Dept., anyone else read this?

"SANTA FE ? Chronic wasting disease in deer and elk in southern New Mexico has prompted the Department of Game and Fish to expand areas where hunters must observe special rules pertaining to the handling and transportation of animal carcasses.

The Department has designated the entire Game Management Units 34, 28 and 19 as Chronic Wasting Disease Control Areas. Previously, only portions of some units were designated as control areas.

Department rules allows hunters who take a deer or elk within a control area to transport only certain portions of the carcass outside the boundaries of the Game Management Unit from which it was taken. Those portions include:
Meat that is cut and wrapped, either commercially or privately.
Quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached.
Meat that has been boned out.
Hides with no heads attached.
Clean skull plates with antlers attached. Clean is defined as having been immersed in a bath of at least one part chlorine bleach and two parts water, with no meat or tissue attached.
Antlers, with or without velvet, attached to skull plate with no meat or tissue attached.
Upper canine teeth, also known as ?buglers,? whistlers,? or ?ivories.?
Finished taxidermied heads."

 

[live4muleys]

So does this mean that you can not have fur on the head of your animal and take it out of the unit like that?

The way I read it you can only take the skull out if it is cleaned completely. Most times hides are left on the animal til you get home.