'I'm Gonna Start Target Practicing.' New Mexico Landowner Arrested on Felony Charges for Threatening Fishermen at Gunpoint

'I'm Gonna Start Target Practicing.' New Mexico Landowner Arrested on Felony Charges for Threatening Fishermen at Gunpoint

It has been nearly three years since the New Mexico Supreme Court re-established the public’s constitutional right to wade and fish in the state’s streams, including those that flow alongside or over private property. This has, at times, created a dangerous tension between fishermen and landowners in the Land of Enchantment. And while multiple appeals by private landowners to overturn the State Supreme Court’s 2022 decision have failed, at least…