![]() ![]() at the tracks this outfit made during its first century. Along the trail the Department has assumed new responsibilities as the public’s desire to retain its wildlife heritage embraced species once believed less than desirable. Their mission is to provide the people of New Mexico with a flexible system of fish and wildlife management that perpetuates the state’s vast wealth of wildlife species.ĭuring the last century of challenge, the agency has restored elk put Bighorn sheep back on the mountains constructed and reconstructed six fish hatcheries. The Department of Game and Fish has grown out of that first appointment. There was no school of wildlife management, no state fish hatchery system and few, if any, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and elk. “New Mexico’s first territorial game warden was appointed in 1903. Now available online, A Century of Wildlife Management originally appeared between Winter 2002-03 through Summer 2005 in the pages of New Mexico Wildlife magazine. The 9-part series was created by John Crenshaw – writer, outdoorsman, and retired chief of the Department of Game and Fish Public Information and Outreach Division. ![]()
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