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…
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