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A MEMORIAL
URGING THE STATE GAME COMMISSION TO ALLOW THE JUAN TAFOYA
LAND CORPORATION TO GRAZE CATTLE ON LAND IN THE MARQUEZ
WILDLIFE AREA.
WHEREAS, the state game commission possesses more than
fourteen thousand acres of land known as the Marquez wildlife
area, which was once part of the Juan Tafoya land grant,
formerly part of the Cebolleta land grant and now known as
the Juan Tafoya land corporation; and
WHEREAS, the Juan Tafoya land corporation and the state
game commission had a decades-long lease that allowed the
corporation to graze cattle on two pastures within the
wildlife area in exchange for granting hunters access to the
wildlife area across the corporation's land; and
WHEREAS, that lease terminated when the state game
commission reached an agreement with a neighboring landowner
for access to the wildlife area, leaving the land corporation
in the unenviable position of trying to remove its cattle
from fenced and isolated land that it once owned and upon
which it has grazed cattle for decades;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the state game commission be urged
to allow the Juan Tafoya land corporation to continue to
graze cattle on land in the Marquez wildlife area; and