Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams said Thursday that offering hunting on federal lands is a “priority in the Service’s efforts to offer wildlife-related recreation for all Americans.” (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
time is short Was in a hardware store getting a few items, while paying I noticed the ammo shelves were pitiful at best, I asked ” what hell you got there?”. Those are baggies with twisty ties, 25 per bag of .22’s. That conversation isn’t worth sharing.
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it is moving ahead with prohibitions on the type of equipment hunters are allowed to use on federal refuges, a move strongly opposed by sportsmen groups.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its 2023-2024 hunting and fishing rule — an annual plan laying out regulations for the upcoming hunting season — banning cost-effective lead ammunition and fishing tackle across eight national wildlife refuges by 2026. Such an action has been supported by eco groups, but opposed by hunters, who argue that it could serve as a backdoor attack on hunting broadly.
“This is the latest example of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service creating rules that punish hunters, threaten conservation funding and advance special interests without sound scientific evidence that traditional lead ammunition cause is causing detrimental wildlife population impacts,” said Lawrence Keane, the senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Under the FWS rule proposed Thursday, sportsmen will be prohibited from using lead ammunition or tackle across eight federally managed refuges — Blackwater in Maryland, Chincoteague in Virginia, Eastern Neck in Maryland, Erie in Pennsylvania, Great Thicket in Massachusetts, Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland, Rachel Carson in Maine and Wallops Island Nation in Virginia — beginning on Sept. 1, 2026.
Heard it said before and more than a few times, they cannot get the guns, they’ll go for the ammo
” Chance” Loonsfoot, ” where were you, we didn’t see your leather this year, I gave my word no nursing home.
Keep your word brother.
