This is the amended version of House Joint Memorial 48. It passed out of the House Energy & Natural Resources Committee this morning and is headed to the House floor. We need all the support we can get to get this heard and debated on the full House floor. Please call and email all of the members of the House of Representatives.

Phone numbers and email addresses can be found at: http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/legislatorsearch.aspx

Please be sure and call the Speaker of the House, Ben Lujan, at (505) 986-4782 or email at ben.lujan@nmlegis.gov .

Rep. Paul Bandy (sponsor), Rep. Nick Salazar, Rep. Andy Nunez, Rep. Candy Spence Ezell, Rep. R.J. Strickler, Rep. Don Bratton, and Rep. Bill Gray all voted in favor of this Memorial. Please thank them for their support.

This MUST to be done TODAY. Legislators need to understand that property is being taken without just compensation in the Mexican Wolf program and the State needs to take a stand!!!

Representative Don L. Tripp - (R)

District:	49
County:	Catron, Socorro & Valencia
Representative Since:	1999
Occupation:	Jeweler
Address:	Box 1369
	Socorro, NM 87801
Capitol Phone:	(505) 986-4220
Office Phone:	(575) 835-2465
Home Phone:	(575) 835-0766
E-mail:	trippsdon@netscape.net

Senator Howie C. Morales - (D)

District:	28
County:	Catron, Grant & Socorro
Senator Since:	2008
Occupation:	Educator
Address:	4285 North Swan
	Silver City, NM 88061
Capitol Phone:	(505) 986-4863
Office Phone:	(575) 574-0043
Home Phone:
E-mail:	howiemorales@yahoo.com

We are this weekend working on legislation in Santa Fe. We need your help! Please respond quickly by email or phone call to the below shown contacts. The enviros are trying to stall us and we have only a tiny window of time.

We believe this will move out of this committee tomorrow. Then it should go to the House floor. There are only 5 days left in the session, and the enviros are trying to stall this so it can't get through in time. If members will go ahead and start sending emails or making calls to ALL of the Representatives and Senators, that would probably be the best. All of the contact information is available on www.nmlegis.gov

Dear Representatives Madalena, Salazar, Bandy, Bratton, Egolf, Ezzell, Garcia, Gray, Lujan, Nunez, Rodefer, Sandoval & Steinborn. Thank you in advance for the passage of this needed and important memorial HJM 48.

This e-mail is in support of the memorial and is a much needed and necessary message to be sent to the New Mexico Game and Fish Commission and NM Game and Fish Department to work with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in some form of compensation program to many of our severally affected ranchers who have been hit hard by the wolves. The NMGFD has just issued an agency bill analysis on the memorial and basically are copping out on a much needed recognition from them as to what damage the wolves are doing to our ranchers, sportsmen and local economy. Up until this point they have done little to alleviate our dire situation.

The taxpayers of New Mexico shouldn't be liable except for the fact that Governor Richardson wants the wolves but has said he supports a compensation program. As long as our state is partnering with the Feds' on the Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction program, that makes the state and the taxpayers liable. It should not have to be paid for by the sportsmen and hunters whom overwhelmingly don't want the program, and who will soon be cut way back in hunting opportunities here in the greater Gila, which translates into a crippling blow to our local economy.

The proposed legislation has been pegged by many as an attempt to prohibit wolf reintroduction. That is not the object of the memorial. The thrust of

it is that our ranchers and sportsmen and local economy need to be recognized as bearing the brunt of the wolf program and should be compensated and protected from further harm. Our school system here is in dire straights, budget wise and losing students every year. Our small businesses are barely staying alive and many ranchers are being severely crippled and a few who even had to go out of business with the wolf being the nail in their collective coffins. One rancher testified recently that he recently lost 14 working days on his ranch dealing with wolf depredations. It just isn't fair!