A Colorado wildlife refuge will allow hunting and fishing for the first time

by PEER | September 12, 2019
BOISE, Idaho — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, including one in Colorado, in a move that critics contend is deferring management to states and could harm wildlife. The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and ...

Wildlife, not visitors, take precedence at National Bison Range

by PEER | September 11, 2019
Managers of the National Bison Range will keep wildlife as a priority, but visitors will get a few more amenities under a final management plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reiterated its intent to focus on wildlife for at least the next 15 years in its final draft of the National ...

Trump administration expands hunting and fishing in wildlife refuges

by PEER |
President Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, in a move that critics say could harm wildlife. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said hunters and anglers can shoot and cast their rods on 2,200 square miles of ...

A more peaceful National Park experience could be coming soon

by PEER | September 10, 2019
The action is nearly two decades in the making. Although Congress passed the National Park Air Tour Management Act in 2000, tasking both agencies with developing management strategies to limit commercial air-tour operators and create incentives for quiet aircraft, nothing has come to ...
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