Bait and Switch
Carlos A. Pacheco, who's been hunting on the White Peak land for years, says he came to the news conference to "protest some monkey business."
The conflict over who gets to acquire state trust land in the White Peak hunting area intensified today in anticipation of a Tuesday, Nov 24 deadline for bidding on the 7,000-acre parcel in the northeastern part of the state.
At this morning’s meeting of the Legislative Finance Committee, State Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons came under the prosecutorial gun of State Rep Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, who fired a series of rapid questions at Lyons, who began his meeting with the Committee with a request for a $13.9 million budget appropriation in FY 2010.
The problem, according to Joel Gay, the New Mexico Wildlife Federation’s communications director, is that the process of selling off the land hasn’t been public enough.
“This thing has been largely [executed] out of the public eye,” Gay tells SFR. “If the land office wanted the most interest and competition, they would have reached out. We just got the appraisals this morning.” Continue reading »
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