The Yellowstone elk apparently found New Mexico to their liking. Gable released 12 elk in the Sangre de Cristo Range in 1911. The Bartlet Ranch (Vermejo) released 15 elk in 1910. Gable, and organizations like the New Mexico Game Protective Association (later known as NMWF) were transplanting small groups of a different sub-species, Rocky Mountain elk, from the Yellowstone region to areas ranging from the Pecos and Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the Jemez, Mt. In 1910, a few short years after the last Merriam’s disappeared, far-sighted individuals like New Mexico’s first Territorial Game Warden, Thomas P. New Mexico’s native elk, the Merriam’s, was driven to extinction by market hunting and uncontrolled grazing in the early 1900s, and today little is known about a animal once plentiful throughout the Southwest.īut a century ago, sportsmen decided they wouldn’t have a state without elk. (This story first appeared in the Spring 2014 Outdoor Reporter)
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