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Recent Press Releases
Fund for Animals Condemns Use of Taxpayers' Money by Wildlife Refuge "Party Animals"
May 22, 2003 - The Fund for Animals, a national animal protection organization, is condemning the use of taxpayers' money to hold an expensive 100th anniversary celebration of the National Wildlife Refuge System at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in March.
Fund for Animals Files Suit Over Opening National Wildlife Refuges to Sport Hunting
March 13, 2003 - On the eve of the National Wildlife Refuge System's centennial celebration, The Fund for Animals has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging the opening or expansion of sport hunting at 39 refuges since 1997. The Fund claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated federal law by failing to adequately analyze the environmental impacts of this decision.
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Refuges in the News
Firing blanks with phony gun machismo
The Arizona Republic
September 19, 2004 - Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush are both trying to win the votes of hunters. However, winning true "sportsmen" will mean lessening the influence of groups like the NRA and Safari Club International on wildlife policy. Article by Matthew Scully who has served in the White House as special assistant to the president and deputy director of speechwriting.
Idaho State News
USA Today
August 28, 2003 - The Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge banned hunting around the Lake Lowell dam. The ban follows complaints that motorists and pedestrians on Riverside Drive in Canyon County were getting hit by shotgun pellets.
Stop hunting in wildlife refuges
Billings Gazette
June 28, 2003 - In the June 12 article on hunting in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, The Gazette glorified a fact that would startle most Americans outside of Billings: that hunting and trapping are allowed -- even encouraged -- on nearly 60 percent of the system's 540 refuges. Readers are encouraged to grab their dictionaries and look up the word "refuge."
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