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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is directing dozens of wildlife refuges staff to return to work to make sure hunters have access despite the government shutdown, according to an email obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
The partial restaffing of 38 wildlife refuges is angering wildlife groups.
Margaret Everson, principal deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, cites "opportunities, including hunting" that are being lost in the shutdown.
According to the email, the wildlife refuges being restaffed include Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains, scene of an annual winter elk hunt.
https://www.kob.com/news/us-orders-refuges-to-staff-for-hunters-despite-shutdown/5204130/?cat=649
800,000+ furloughed workers are going without a paycheck,
while hunters can hunt on wildlife refuges staffed by unpaid staff?
MFM008
(19,834 posts)my money not hunters would be my priority.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)wildlife refuges so HUNTERS can come and kill the wildlife.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)on their Fall and Winter Guided Hunting Trips.
Happened on to a U tube from a Pro Gun Hunting Group out of South Dakota crying about this a couple days ago. Happen to know a couple of Fellows who make so heavy coin Guiding these what they call Eastern fat cats.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,102 posts)Bayard
(22,231 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,552 posts)maxsolomon
(33,461 posts)jackalopes and snafflehounds especially.