Coyote hunting near Vantage for the wife and her new gun

[CAMPMEAT]

OK, why is one of the most successful predators on earth not allowed to be hunted on the USFWS lands ?

[dontgetcrabs]

    

[boneaddict]

Guess I need to figure out what USFWS stands for and what lands it includes.

[bigtex]

Guess I need to figure out what USFWS stands for and what lands it includes.

US Fish and Wildlife Service. Basically any "National Wildlife Refuge"

The reason it is not in any WDFW regs is that it is a federal law, not a state law. WDFW could adopt the law but haven't done so.

[bigtex]

OK, why is one of the most successful predators on earth not allowed to be hunted on the USFWS lands ?

Not sure.

But I will say this. Under federal law all National Wildlife Refuges are closed to hunting and closed to public access. It is up to the Refuge Manager to a) open the lands to public use/visitation and b) allow trapping, hunting, fishing.  NWRs aren't "made" to be prime hunting spots, they are made to be wildlife refuges, essentially a no hunting area. So the fact that we are able to hunt and even access some NWRs is "lucky"

[CAMPMEAT]

OK, why is one of the most successful predators on earth not allowed to be hunted on the USFWS lands ?

Not sure.

But I will say this. Under federal law all National Wildlife Refuges are closed to hunting and closed to public access. It is up to the Refuge Manager to a) open the lands to public use/visitation and b) allow trapping, hunting, fishing.  NWRs aren't "made" to be prime hunting spots, they are made to be wildlife refuges, essentially a no hunting area. So the fact that we are able to hunt and even access some NWRs is "lucky"

Thanks bigtex.

[JLS]

OK, why is one of the most successful predators on earth not allowed to be hunted on the USFWS lands ?

Not sure.

But I will say this. Under federal law all National Wildlife Refuges are closed to hunting and closed to public access. It is up to the Refuge Manager to a) open the lands to public use/visitation and b) allow trapping, hunting, fishing.  NWRs aren't "made" to be prime hunting spots, they are made to be wildlife refuges, essentially a no hunting area. So the fact that we are able to hunt and even access some NWRs is "lucky"

You can't shoot prairie dogs on the CMR refuge in Montana.  You can't even shine animals with a spotlight regardless of whether you have a gun or not on the CMR.  Make sure you check each individual refuge's rules.