https://www.rdrnews.com/2021/03/20/legislature-approves-public-lands-trapping-ban/

ByAlex Ross-March 20, 2021

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Controversial legislation to ban most trapping on public lands in New Mexico passed the state House Thursday evening by a single vote.

House members approved the bill 35-34. Last week the bill passed the Senate 23-16. It now heads to the desk of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for her signature.

The Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act, Senate Bill 32 (SB 32), makes it a criminal misdemeanor “to use a trap, snare, or poison wildlife for the purposes of capturing, injuring or killing an animal on public land,” the legislation states.

Hunting and trapping on private or tribal land would be allowed to continue. Exemptions to the prohibition on state and federal public land also would be in place for bonafide scientific research, rodent control, and trapping by an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe…