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What You Can Do:
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CALL OR WRITE to the Otero County Commissioners
and urge them to create an ordinance that would effectively ban
the rattlesnake roundup in Otero County. The Commissioners’
contact information may be found at www.co.otero.nm.us or
by calling the County Administrator’s office at 505-437-7427.
CALL OR WRITE to The New Mexico Department of
Game and Fish, P.O. Box 25112, Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505-476-8000)
Attn: Director Bruce Thompson. Call or write to the New Mexico
State Game Commission (the Commissioners’ contact information
can be found at wildlife.state.nm.us , or by calling 476-8000).
Tell them you oppose the rattlesnake roundup and would like to
see western diamondback rattlesnakes regulated like any other protected
game animal, with limits set on the number that can be taken by
hunters.
CALL OR WRITE to The Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce,
1301 N. White Sands Blvd., Alamogordo, NM 88310, (Phone: 505-437-6120;
Fax: 505-437-6334). Attn: Executive Director. Ask that the Chamber
support humane and educational alternative events in their community
regarding rattlesnakes.
CALL OR WRITE to The Otero County Fair Association, Attn:
Fair Board, 401 Fair Grounds Road, Alamogordo, NM 88310, (Phone:
505-434-0788; Fax: 505-437-6134). Request that they stop renting
the fairgrounds for the purpose of the rattlesnake roundup.
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