LAS CRUCES — Staff members from the federal Bureau of Land Management and New Mexico's State Land Office delivered a presentation Monday night on a planned land swap that would deliver about 85,000 state-owned acres of minerals and surface area within the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument to the federal agency.

Over 50 people turned out to the meeting at the Doña Ana County Government Center, but some were there to ask about a different matter altogether, as rumors have circulated locally about a possible land exchange between the state and the Mescalero Apache tribe for a parcel of land in Las Cruces that might be developed by the tribe.

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