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2020 Station
-Specific Hunting and Fishing Final
Rule
National Wildlife Refuges and National Fish Hatcheries Narratives
•
Alabama
o
Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
snipe, woodcock, crow, fox, bobcat, coyote,
white
-tailed deer
and feral hog hunting for the first time on 1,053 acres already open to other
hunting.
•
Alabama/Mississippi
o
Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand
season date ranges for existing migratory
game bird hunting to align with state regulations on 10,236 acres.
•
Arizona
o
Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take for existing
migratory game bird hunting and upland game hunting to further align with state regulations.
o
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
method of take and season date ranges for
existing upland game hunting and existing big game hunting on 104,986 acres to further align
with state regulations.
o
Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take and hunting hours for existing
migratory
game bird hunting and expand method of take for existing upland game hunting to
further align with state regulations. Expand existing big game hunting to 12,243 acres already
open to other activities.
o
Havasu National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand hours and season date ranges for existing
migratory game bird hunting to further align with state regulations on 25,197 acres.
o
Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of tak
e for existing migratory game bird
hunting and expand method of take and season date ranges for existing upland game hunting
to further align with state regulations on 23,897 acres.
o
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take and season date ranges for existing
upland game hunting on 663,402 acres to further align with state regulations.
o
San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take for existing migratory
game bird hunting on 1,303 acres to further align with state regulations
.
•
California
o
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to wild turkey hunting for the first time on 1,639
acres already open to other hunting.
o
Delevan National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to wild turkey hunting for the first time on
1,696
acres already open to other hunting.
o
Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to sport fishing for the first time.
o
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to wild turkey hunting for the first time
on
1,371 acres already open to other hunting.
o
San Pablo Bay National Wildlife
Refuge
:
Expand season date
ranges and method of take for
existing migratory game bird hunting on 9,726 acres to further align with state regulations.
o
Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
sport fishing for the first time on acres
already open to other activities.
o
Sutter National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to
wild turkey hunting for the first time on 839
acres already open to other hunting.
•
Colorado
o
Hotchkiss
National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing for the first time.
o
Leadville National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to migratory game bi
rd (duck), upland
game (grouse) and big game (mule deer and elk) hunting, and sport fishing for the first time
on 3,072 acres.
•
Connecticut
/Massachusetts
o
Silvio O. Conte
National Wildlife Refuge
: Open
migratory game bird (duc
k, geese,
woodcock, snipe, rail
and crow), upland game (squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, grouse, bobcat, fox,
coyote, raccoon and opossum), big game (white
-tailed deer, black bear, turkey) hunting on
1,818 acres, and sport fishing for the first time.
•
Florida
o
St. Marks
National Wildlife Refu
ge:
Expand
existing upland game and big game hunting to
6,523 new acres.
•
Georgia
o
Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date ranges for existing upland
game hunting to further align with state regulations and expand existing big game hunting by
increasing quota numbers on 6,980 acres to increase access.
o
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
method of take and season date ranges for
existing big game hunting on 3,822 acres to further align with state regulations
.
o
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date range for existing raccoon,
opossum and big game hunting on 33,744 acres to further align with state regulations.
•
Idaho
o
Minidoka
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
big game hunting (elk) for the first time on 300
acres already open to other hunting.
Expand existing sport fishing by extending the boating
season.
•
Illinois
o
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
coot, snipe, rail, woodcock, crow, mourning
and white
-winged dove, bobcat, skunk, woodchuck, Hungarian partridge and pheasant for the
first time on acres already open to hunting. Expand existing m
igratory game bird, upland
game and
big game hunting to further align with state regulations and offer special
opportunities for targeted demographics on 44,219 acres.
o
Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
rail, crow, bobcat, skunk, woodchuck,
Hungarian partridge and pheasant hunting for the first time on 76 new acres and acres already
open to hunting. Expand
existing m
igratory game bird, upland game
and existing big game
hunting to 15,751 new acres.
•
Illinois/Missouri
o
Great River National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand season date ranges and method of take for
existin
g big game hunting and expand season date ranges for existing upland game hunting to
align with state regulations on 4,217 acres.
o
Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand existing upland game hunting
and existing sport fishing to 884 new acres. Expand
method of take f
or existing big game
hunting to further align to state regulations on 1,885 acres.
•
Illinois/Wisconsin
o
Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge
: Open
sport fishing for the first time on acres
already open to other activities.
•
Indiana
o
Patoka River National
Wildlife Refuge
: Expand existing migratory game bird, upland
game and big game hunting and sport fishing to 473 new acres.
•
Iowa
o
Neal Smith
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
existing migratory game bird, upland
game and big game hunting to new 330 acres.
•
Iowa/Minnesota
o
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge
: Open
sport fishing for the first
time on new acres and acres already open to other activities.
Expand existing migratory
game bird, upland game and big game hunting to new 774 acres.
•
Iowa/Nebraska
o
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand season date ranges for existing big game hunting
to further align with state regulations on 1,604 acres.
•
Kansas
o
Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand existing migratory game bird hunting to 902
acres
already open to other hunting.
•
Kentucky
o
Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date range for existing coyote
hunting on 8,716 acres
to align with state regulations.
•
Maine
o
Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing
for the first time.
•
Maryland
o
Patuxent Research Refuge:
Expand existing big game hunting to 59 new acres.
•
Massachusetts
o
Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to migratory game bird (duck, geese, coot,
snipe, rail, woodcock and crow), upland game (squirrel, pheasant, quai
l, grouse, fox,
coyote, raccoon and opossum) and big game (white
-tailed deer and wild turkey) hunting
for the first time
on 290 acres
.
o
Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to m
igratory game bird (duck, geese
and coot)
hunting on 7,250 acres for the first time.
o
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to upland game hunting (squirrel, rabbit,
pheasant, turkey, grouse, fox, coyote, raccoon and opossum) for the first time on 259 new
acres and 1,783 acres already open to other hunting. Expand existing migratory
game bird
hunting and expand season dates for existing migratory game bird and big game hunting
on the same acres.
•
Minnesota
o
Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
migratory game bird hunting (duck,
geese, coot, merganser, moorhen, rail, snipe, mourning dove and crow) and upland game
hunting (rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, fox, badger, pheasant, opossum, weasel, bobcat, grouse
,
coyote and skunk) for the first time in alignment with state regulations on 932 new acres and
acres already open to hunting. Expand existing big game hunting on those same acres.
o
Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
rail, crow, mourning dove, wild turkey and
bobcat hunting on 42,314 acres already open to other hunting.
•
Montana
o
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
coot, crane and tundra swan hunting
on 10,491 acres already open to other hunting. Expand season date range for existing
sport fishing to further align with state regulations.
•
Nebraska
o
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
wild turkey hunting for the first time on 290
acres already open to other hunting.
Expand existing migratory game bi
rd hunting to 2,348
acres already open to other hunting, and expand
season dates for existing big game hunting on
14 acres.
o
Valentine National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand the season date range for existing coyote
hunting to further align with state regulations
.
•
New Hampshire
o
Great Bay
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
turkey hunting for the first time on 683 acres
already open to other hunting. Expand
method of take and season date ranges for existing
white
-tailed deer hunting to further align with state regulations on 943 acres.
•
New Mexico
o
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand the method of take and season date ranges
for existing migratory bird hunting and method of take for existing upland game hunting on
1,086 acres
to further align with state regulations
o
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take and hunting hours for
existing migratory game bird hunting and existing upland game hunting to further align with
state regulations, and expand
number of tags for existing youth turkey hunting on 48,044
acres to increase access.
o
Dexter National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to migratory game bird (duck, coot,
sandhill crane and dove) and upland game hunting (Eurasian
-collared dove and band
-tailed
pigeon) for the first time
on 461 acres
.
o
Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand the bag limit for existing migratory game
bird hunting on 506 acres to further align with the state.
•
North Carolina
o
Currituck
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
hunting hours for existing migrator
y game
bird hunting and expand
method of take and bag limits for existing big game hunting on
3,610 acres
to further align with state regulations.
o
Edenton National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing for the first time.
o
Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date ranges for existing big game
hunting to further align with state regulations and offer youth hunt
on 7,811 acres.
•
North Dakota
o
Valley City
National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing for the first time.
•
Ohio
o
Cedar Point National
Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand existing sport fishing to new areas.
2020 Station
-Specific Hunting and Fishing Final
Rule
National Wildlife Refuges and National Fish Hatcheries Narratives
•
Alabama
o
Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
snipe, woodcock, crow, fox, bobcat, coyote,
white
-tailed deer
and feral hog hunting for the first time on 1,053 acres already open to other
hunting.
•
Alabama/Mississippi
o
Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand
season date ranges for existing migratory
game bird hunting to align with state regulations on 10,236 acres.
•
Arizona
o
Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take for existing
migratory game bird hunting and upland game hunting to further align with state regulations.
o
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
method of take and season date ranges for
existing upland game hunting and existing big game hunting on 104,986 acres to further align
with state regulations.
o
Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take and hunting hours for existing
migratory
game bird hunting and expand method of take for existing upland game hunting to
further align with state regulations. Expand existing big game hunting to 12,243 acres already
open to other activities.
o
Havasu National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand hours and season date ranges for existing
migratory game bird hunting to further align with state regulations on 25,197 acres.
o
Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of tak
e for existing migratory game bird
hunting and expand method of take and season date ranges for existing upland game hunting
to further align with state regulations on 23,897 acres.
o
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take and season date ranges for existing
upland game hunting on 663,402 acres to further align with state regulations.
o
San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take for existing migratory
game bird hunting on 1,303 acres to further align with state regulations
.
•
California
o
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to wild turkey hunting for the first time on 1,639
acres already open to other hunting.
o
Delevan National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to wild turkey hunting for the first time on
1,696
acres already open to other hunting.
o
Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to sport fishing for the first time.
o
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to wild turkey hunting for the first time
on
1,371 acres already open to other hunting.
o
San Pablo Bay National Wildlife
Refuge
:
Expand season date
ranges and method of take for
existing migratory game bird hunting on 9,726 acres to further align with state regulations.
o
Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
sport fishing for the first time on acres
already open to other activities.
o
Sutter National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to
wild turkey hunting for the first time on 839
acres already open to other hunting.
•
Colorado
o
Hotchkiss
National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing for the first time.
o
Leadville National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to migratory game bi
rd (duck), upland
game (grouse) and big game (mule deer and elk) hunting, and sport fishing for the first time
on 3,072 acres.
•
Connecticut
/Massachusetts
o
Silvio O. Conte
National Wildlife Refuge
: Open
migratory game bird (duc
k, geese,
woodcock, snipe, rail
and crow), upland game (squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, grouse, bobcat, fox,
coyote, raccoon and opossum), big game (white
-tailed deer, black bear, turkey) hunting on
1,818 acres, and sport fishing for the first time.
•
Florida
o
St. Marks
National Wildlife Refu
ge:
Expand
existing upland game and big game hunting to
6,523 new acres.
•
Georgia
o
Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date ranges for existing upland
game hunting to further align with state regulations and expand existing big game hunting by
increasing quota numbers on 6,980 acres to increase access.
o
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
method of take and season date ranges for
existing big game hunting on 3,822 acres to further align with state regulations
.
o
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date range for existing raccoon,
opossum and big game hunting on 33,744 acres to further align with state regulations.
•
Idaho
o
Minidoka
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
big game hunting (elk) for the first time on 300
acres already open to other hunting.
Expand existing sport fishing by extending the boating
season.
•
Illinois
o
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
coot, snipe, rail, woodcock, crow, mourning
and white
-winged dove, bobcat, skunk, woodchuck, Hungarian partridge and pheasant for the
first time on acres already open to hunting. Expand existing m
igratory game bird, upland
game and
big game hunting to further align with state regulations and offer special
opportunities for targeted demographics on 44,219 acres.
o
Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
rail, crow, bobcat, skunk, woodchuck,
Hungarian partridge and pheasant hunting for the first time on 76 new acres and acres already
open to hunting. Expand
existing m
igratory game bird, upland game
and existing big game
hunting to 15,751 new acres.
•
Illinois/Missouri
o
Great River National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand season date ranges and method of take for
existin
g big game hunting and expand season date ranges for existing upland game hunting to
align with state regulations on 4,217 acres.
o
Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand existing upland game hunting
and existing sport fishing to 884 new acres. Expand
method of take f
or existing big game
hunting to further align to state regulations on 1,885 acres.
•
Illinois/Wisconsin
o
Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge
: Open
sport fishing for the first time on acres
already open to other activities.
•
Indiana
o
Patoka River National
Wildlife Refuge
: Expand existing migratory game bird, upland
game and big game hunting and sport fishing to 473 new acres.
•
Iowa
o
Neal Smith
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
existing migratory game bird, upland
game and big game hunting to new 330 acres.
•
Iowa/Minnesota
o
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge
: Open
sport fishing for the first
time on new acres and acres already open to other activities.
Expand existing migratory
game bird, upland game and big game hunting to new 774 acres.
•
Iowa/Nebraska
o
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge
: Expand season date ranges for existing big game hunting
to further align with state regulations on 1,604 acres.
•
Kansas
o
Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand existing migratory game bird hunting to 902
acres
already open to other hunting.
•
Kentucky
o
Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date range for existing coyote
hunting on 8,716 acres
to align with state regulations.
•
Maine
o
Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing
for the first time.
•
Maryland
o
Patuxent Research Refuge:
Expand existing big game hunting to 59 new acres.
•
Massachusetts
o
Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to migratory game bird (duck, geese, coot,
snipe, rail, woodcock and crow), upland game (squirrel, pheasant, quai
l, grouse, fox,
coyote, raccoon and opossum) and big game (white
-tailed deer and wild turkey) hunting
for the first time
on 290 acres
.
o
Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to m
igratory game bird (duck, geese
and coot)
hunting on 7,250 acres for the first time.
o
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
to upland game hunting (squirrel, rabbit,
pheasant, turkey, grouse, fox, coyote, raccoon and opossum) for the first time on 259 new
acres and 1,783 acres already open to other hunting. Expand existing migratory
game bird
hunting and expand season dates for existing migratory game bird and big game hunting
on the same acres.
•
Minnesota
o
Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
migratory game bird hunting (duck,
geese, coot, merganser, moorhen, rail, snipe, mourning dove and crow) and upland game
hunting (rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, fox, badger, pheasant, opossum, weasel, bobcat, grouse
,
coyote and skunk) for the first time in alignment with state regulations on 932 new acres and
acres already open to hunting. Expand existing big game hunting on those same acres.
o
Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
rail, crow, mourning dove, wild turkey and
bobcat hunting on 42,314 acres already open to other hunting.
•
Montana
o
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
coot, crane and tundra swan hunting
on 10,491 acres already open to other hunting. Expand season date range for existing
sport fishing to further align with state regulations.
•
Nebraska
o
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
wild turkey hunting for the first time on 290
acres already open to other hunting.
Expand existing migratory game bi
rd hunting to 2,348
acres already open to other hunting, and expand
season dates for existing big game hunting on
14 acres.
o
Valentine National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand the season date range for existing coyote
hunting to further align with state regulations
.
•
New Hampshire
o
Great Bay
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Open
turkey hunting for the first time on 683 acres
already open to other hunting. Expand
method of take and season date ranges for existing
white
-tailed deer hunting to further align with state regulations on 943 acres.
•
New Mexico
o
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand the method of take and season date ranges
for existing migratory bird hunting and method of take for existing upland game hunting on
1,086 acres
to further align with state regulations
o
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand method of take and hunting hours for
existing migratory game bird hunting and existing upland game hunting to further align with
state regulations, and expand
number of tags for existing youth turkey hunting on 48,044
acres to increase access.
o
Dexter National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to migratory game bird (duck, coot,
sandhill crane and dove) and upland game hunting (Eurasian
-collared dove and band
-tailed
pigeon) for the first time
on 461 acres
.
o
Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand the bag limit for existing migratory game
bird hunting on 506 acres to further align with the state.
•
North Carolina
o
Currituck
National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand
hunting hours for existing migrator
y game
bird hunting and expand
method of take and bag limits for existing big game hunting on
3,610 acres
to further align with state regulations.
o
Edenton National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing for the first time.
o
Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand season date ranges for existing big game
hunting to further align with state regulations and offer youth hunt
on 7,811 acres.
•
North Dakota
o
Valley City
National Fish Hatchery
:
Formally open to sport fishing for the first time.
•
Ohio
o
Cedar Point National
Wildlife Refuge
:
Expand existing sport fishing to new areas.