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What a Record Hunting and Fishing Expansion Means for America’s Wildlife Refuges
Now, hunting and other forms of recreation are permitted across a majority of those refuges when “compatible with each station’s purpose and mission under federal law,” per FWS.
The very definition of a refuge seems to have “slowly morphed into an entity that was meant to provide an opportunity for hunting access,” Williams says.
The new rule raises a question of compatibility: How can the refuges fulfill their conservation mandate amid the nation’s largest-ever expansion of hunting and fishing?
Does hunting undermine the purpose of a wildlife refuge?
The FWS said this week’s expansion is about “maximizing access where compatible with conservation goals.”
It also said that the new rule will help revitalize rural economies, as hunters and anglers contribute more than $144 billion annually to the U.S. economy.
“These activities support jobs, fund conservation efforts, and sustain outdoor traditions that connect communities to the land and to each other,” the August announcement read.
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