NM game and fish roadblock

[WaylandCanyon]

LAST EDITED ON Nov-13-17 AT 06:05AM (MST)[p]Seems someone brought this up here a while back. Well, I was fooling around in the Sacramentos south of Cloudcroft yesterday, and when I came down Highway 24 from Weed to where it joins Highway 130 on the Rio Pe?asco, there were about a half-dozen game warden rigs and all lanes blocked. A very polite Officer Peralta asked if I had done any hunting and then waved me on. First time I have seen a roadblock of this nature.
By the way, I stopped and chatted with a party of about a half-dozen deer hunters camped along the E-11 Surveyor's Canyon road west of Pi?on. They had just been told my a warden to move their camp off private land, even thought they had been checked there by another warden the day before. I got out my Lincoln National Forest map and it was very clear that there is all kinds of private land in that country that is marked on this map as public. Don't rely on it for determining public vs. private!

 

[throwfar]

I've seen a roadblock like this just passed San Antonio on the way to Carrizozo a couple years ago.

 

[NMhntr727]

Good it's nice to see the game and fish keeping people honest.??

 

[TRC]

Get OnXmaps, break out your phone and politely say. Sir, I'm on public land you are mistaken. OR look at your OnXmap and say before you ever set up camp...I can't camp here this is private land.

No excuses anymore with wardens or us sportsman on what's public or private with the technology that excists today.

Just my personal thoughts....

 

[elkfanatic]

Did they have any other equipment set up? Could have been a CWD checkpoint out there.

 

[WaylandCanyon]

Elkfanatic, I did not see a CWD checkpoint there, but I did see one set up on the road to Sunspot a few weeks ago.

 

[WapitiBob]

"Get OnXmaps, break out your phone and politely say. Sir, I'm on public land you are mistaken. OR look at your OnXmap and say before you ever set up camp...I can't camp here this is private land.
No excuses anymore with wardens or us sportsman on what's public or private with the technology that excists today."

Other than the fact that OnX isn't a legal description for a parcel and in several instances I know of, isn't accurate at all when showing public vs private. The warden had the same OnX map in his gps but it doesn't really matter when the map is wrong.