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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 32 

[Docket No. FWS–HQ–NWRS–2018–0020; 

FXRS12610900000–189–FF09R20000] 

RIN 1018–BC07 

2018–2019 Refuge-Specific Hunting 

and Sport Fishing Regulations 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, open 3 National 

Wildlife Refuges (NWRs, or refuges) to 

hunting, open 1 NWR to sport fishing, 

increase the hunting activities available 

at 26 NWRs, increase sport fishing 

activities at 4 NWRs, and add pertinent 

refuge-specific regulations for other 

NWRs that pertain to migratory game 

bird hunting, upland game hunting, big 

game hunting, and sport fishing for the 

2018–2019 season. Through these 

openings and expansions, we open or 

expand an additional 251,000 acres to 

hunting and sport fishing within the 

Refuge System resulting in an estimated 

increase of 17,575 user days yielding 

approximately $711,000 in recreationrelated expenditures. By having ripple 

effects throughout the economy, these 

direct expenditures yield a total 

economic impact of approximately $1.6 

million. 

DATES: This rule is effective September 

10, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Harrigan, (703) 358–2440. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966 closes 

NWRs in all States except Alaska to all 

uses until opened. The Secretary of the 

Interior (Secretary) may open refuge 

areas to any use, including hunting and/ 

or sport fishing, upon a determination 

that the use is compatible with the 

purposes of the refuge and National 

Wildlife Refuge System mission. The 

action also must be in accordance with 

provisions of all laws applicable to the 

areas, developed in coordination with 

the appropriate State fish and wildlife 

agency(ies), consistent with the 

principles of sound fish and wildlife 

management and administration, and 

otherwise in the public interest. These 

requirements ensure that we maintain 

the biological integrity, diversity, and 

environmental health of the Refuge 

System for the benefit of present and 

future generations of Americans. 

We annually review refuge hunting 

and sport fishing programs to determine 

whether to include additional refuges or 

whether individual refuge regulations 

governing existing programs need 

modifications. Changing environmental 

conditions, State and Federal 

regulations, and other factors affecting 

fish and wildlife populations and 

habitat may warrant modifications to 

refuge-specific regulations to ensure the 

continued compatibility of hunting and 

sport fishing programs and to ensure 

that these programs will not materially 

interfere with or detract from the 

fulfillment of refuge purposes or the 

Refuge System’s mission. 

Provisions governing hunting and 

sport fishing on refuges are in title 50 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations in part 

32 (50 CFR part 32). We regulate 

hunting and sport fishing on refuges to: 

• Ensure compatibility with refuge 

purpose(s); 

• Properly manage fish and wildlife 

resource(s); 

• Protect other refuge values; 

• Ensure refuge visitor safety; and 

• Provide opportunities for quality 

fish- and wildlife-dependent recreation. 

On many refuges where we decide to 

allow hunting and sport fishing, our 

general policy of adopting regulations 

identical to State hunting and sport 

fishing regulations is adequate in 

meeting these objectives. On other 

refuges, we must supplement State 

regulations with more-restrictive 

Federal regulations to ensure that we 

meet our management responsibilities, 

as outlined in the Statutory Authority 

section, below. We issue refuge-specific 

hunting and sport fishing regulations 

when we open wildlife refuges to 

migratory game bird hunting, upland 

game hunting, big game hunting, or 

sport fishing. These regulations may list 

the wildlife species that you may hunt 

or fish, seasons, bag or creel (container 

for carrying fish) limits, methods of 

hunting or sport fishing, descriptions of 

areas open to hunting or sport fishing, 

and other provisions as appropriate. 

Statutory Authority 

The National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 

668dd–668ee, as amended by the 

National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act of 1997 [Improvement 

Act]) (Administration Act), and the 

Refuge Recreation Act of 1962 (16 

U.S.C. 460k–460k–4) (Recreation Act) 

govern the administration and public 

use of refuges. 

Amendments enacted by the 

Improvement Act built upon the 

Administration Act in a manner that 

provides an ‘‘organic act’’ for the Refuge 

System, similar to organic acts that exist 

for other public Federal lands. The 

Improvement Act serves to ensure that 

we effectively manage the Refuge 

System as a national network of lands, 

waters, and interests for the protection 

and conservation of our Nation’s 

wildlife resources. The Administration 

Act states first and foremost that we 

focus our Refuge System mission on 

conservation of fish, wildlife, and plant 

resources and their habitats. The 

Improvement Act requires the Secretary, 

before allowing a new use of a refuge, 

or before expanding, renewing, or 

extending an existing use of a refuge, to 

determine that the use is compatible 

with the purpose for which the refuge 

was established and the mission of the 

Refuge System. The Improvement Act 

established as the policy of the United 

States that wildlife-dependent 

recreation, when compatible, is a 

legitimate and appropriate public use of 

the Refuge System, through which the 

American public can develop an 

appreciation for fish and wildlife. The 

Improvement Act established six 

wildlife-dependent recreational uses as 

the priority general public uses of the 

Refuge System. These uses are: Hunting, 

fishing, wildlife observation and 

photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation. 

The Recreation Act authorizes the 

Secretary to administer areas within the 

Refuge System for public recreation as 

an appropriate incidental or secondary 

use only to the extent that doing so is 

practicable and not inconsistent with 

the primary purpose(s) for which 

Congress and the Service established the 

areas. The Recreation Act requires that 

any recreational use of refuge lands be 

compatible with the primary purpose(s) 

for which we established the refuge and 

not inconsistent with other previously 

authorized operations. 

The Administration Act and 

Recreation Act also authorize the 

Secretary to issue regulations to carry 

out the purposes of the Acts and 

regulate uses. 

We develop specific management 

plans for each refuge prior to opening it 

to hunting or sport fishing. In many 

cases, we develop refuge-specific 

regulations to ensure the compatibility 

of the programs with the purpose(s) for 

which we established the refuge and the 

Refuge System mission. We ensure 

initial compliance with the 

Administration Act and the Recreation 

Act for hunting and sport fishing on 

newly acquired refuges through an 

interim determination of compatibility 

made at or near the time of acquisition. 

These regulations ensure that we make 

the determinations required by these 


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acts prior to adding refuges to the lists 

of areas open to hunting and sport 

fishing in 50 CFR part 32. We ensure 

continued compliance by the 

development of comprehensive 

conservation plans and step-down 

management plans, and by annual 

review of hunting and sport fishing 

programs and regulations. 

Summary of Comments and Responses 

On May 29, 2018, we published a 

proposed rule in the Federal Register 

(83 FR 24598) to open 3 refuges to 

hunting, increase the hunting activities 

available at 26 refuges, open 1 refuge to 

sport fishing, increase the fishing 

activities at 4 refuges, and add pertinent 

refuge-specific regulations for other 

refuges that pertain to migratory game 

bird hunting, upland game hunting, big 

game hunting, and sport fishing for the 

2018–2019 season. We accepted public 

comments on the proposed rule for 30 

days, ending June 28, 2018. By that date, 

we received 504 comments. Of those, 

eight comments concerned hunting on 

National Park Service land in Alaska, 

pollution in China, and management 

actions on refuges, which are not the 

subject of our proposed rule. Therefore, 

we do not consider them below. We 

discuss the other 496 comments we 

received below by topic. 

Comment (1): Many commenters 

expressed general opposition to any 

hunting or fishing in the National 

Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS, or 

Refuge System). In many cases, 

commenters stated that hunting was 

antithetical to the purposes of a 

‘‘refuge,’’ which, in their opinion, 

should serve as an inviolate sanctuary 

for all wildlife. One of these comments 

specifically opposed hunting at 

Trempealeau NWR in Wisconsin, and 

three commenters opposed hunting at 

Panther Swamp NWR in Mississippi. 

Our Response: The Administration 

Act, as amended, stipulates that hunting 

(along with fishing, wildlife observation 

and photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation), if found 

to be compatible, is a legitimate and 

priority general public use of a refuge 

and should be facilitated. The Service 

has adopted policies and regulations 

implementing the requirements of the 

Administration Act that refuge 

managers comply with when 

considering hunting and fishing 

programs. 

We allow hunting of resident wildlife 

on NWRs only if such activity has been 

determined compatible with the 

established purpose(s) of the refuge and 

the mission of the Refuge System as 

required by the Administration Act. 

Hunting of resident wildlife on NWRs 

generally occurs consistent with State 

regulations, including seasons and bag 

limits. Refuge-specific hunting 

regulations can be more restrictive (but 

not more liberal) than State regulations 

and often are more restrictive in order 

to help meet specific refuge objectives. 

These objectives include resident 

wildlife population and habitat 

objectives, minimizing disturbance 

impacts to wildlife, maintaining highquality opportunities for hunting and 

other wildlife-dependent recreation, 

eliminating or minimizing conflicts 

with other public uses and/or refuge 

management activities, and protecting 

public safety. 

Each refuge manager makes a decision 

regarding hunting on that particular 

refuge only after rigorous examination 

of the available information. Developing 

or referencing a comprehensive 

conservation plan (CCP), a 15-year plan 

for the refuge, is generally the first step 

a refuge manager takes. Our policy for 

managing units of the NWRS is that we 

will manage all refuges in accordance 

with an approved CCP, which, when 

implemented, will achieve refuge 

purposes; help fulfill the Refuge System 

mission; maintain and, where 

appropriate, restore the ecological 

integrity of each refuge and the Refuge 

System; help achieve the goals of the 

National Wilderness Preservation 

System; and meet other mandates. The 

CCP will guide management decisions 

and set forth goals, objectives, and 

strategies to accomplish these ends. The 

next step for refuge managers is 

developing or referencing step-down 

plans, of which a hunting plan would be 

one. Part of the process for opening a 

refuge to hunting after completing the 

step-down plan would be appropriate 

compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), such as conducting 

an environmental assessment 

accompanied by the appropriate 

decision documentation (record of 

decision, finding of no significant 

impact, or environmental action 

memorandum or statement). The rest of 

the elements in the opening package are 

an evaluation of section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), copies 

of letters requesting State and/or tribal 

involvement, and draft refuge-specific 

regulatory language. We make available 

the CCP, hunt plan, and NEPA 

documents, and request public 

comments on them, as well as on any 

proposed rule, before we allow hunting 

on a refuge. 

In sum, this illustrates that the 

decision to allow hunting on an NWR is 

not a quick or simple process. It is full 

of deliberation and discussion, 

including review of all available data to 

determine the relative health of a 

population before we allow it to be 

hunted. 

The word ‘‘refuge’’ includes the idea 

of providing a haven of safety for 

wildlife, and as such, hunting might 

seem an inconsistent use of the NWRS. 

However, again, the Administration Act 

stipulates that hunting, if found 

compatible, is a legitimate and priority 

general public use of a refuge. 

Furthermore, we manage refuges to 

support healthy wildlife populations 

that in many cases produce harvestable 

surpluses that are a renewable resource. 

As practiced on refuges, hunting and 

fishing do not pose a threat to wildlife 

populations. It is important to note that 

taking certain individuals through 

hunting does not necessarily reduce a 

population overall, as hunting can 

simply replace other types of mortality. 

In some cases, however, we use hunting 

as a management tool with the explicit 

goal of reducing a population; this is 

often the case with exotic and/or 

invasive species that threaten ecosystem 

stability. Therefore, facilitating hunting 

opportunities is an important aspect of 

the Service’s roles and responsibilities 

as outlined in the legislation 

establishing the NWRS, and the Service 

will continue to facilitate these 

opportunities where compatible with 

the purpose of the specific refuge and 

the mission of the NWRS. 

Note that not all refuges are inviolate 

sanctuaries. If we acquired a refuge as 

an inviolate sanctuary, we may open up 

to 40 percent of that refuge’s area for 

hunting of migratory game birds (16 

U.S.C. 668dd(d)(1)(A)). However, if we 

acquired a refuge without the 

stipulation that it be an inviolate 

sanctuary, we may open 100 percent of 

the refuge’s area for hunting. 

The Fish and Wildlife Improvement 

Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 742l) amended 

section 6 of the Administration Act to 

provide for the opening of all or any 

portion of an inviolate sanctuary to the 

taking of migratory birds if taking is 

determined to be beneficial to the 

species. Such opening of more than 40 

percent of the refuge to hunting is 

determined by species. This amendment 

refers to inviolate sanctuaries created in 

the past or to be created in the future. 

It has no application to areas acquired 

for other management purposes. 

We did not make any changes to the 

rule as a result of these comments. 

Comment (2): We received a 

substantial number of comments 

expressing general support for the 

proposed changes in the rule. Of the 504 

comments on the rule, 289 were in 


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general support of the proposed 

changes. 

Our Response: In passing the 

Improvement Act, Congress reaffirmed 

that the Refuge System was created to 

conserve fish, wildlife, plants, and their 

habitats, and would facilitate 

opportunities for Americans to 

participate in compatible wildlifedependent recreation, including hunting 

and fishing on Refuge System lands. 

We did not make any changes to the 

rule as a result of these comments. 

Comment (3): We received 76 

comments requesting that the Service 

allow falconry as a use across the 

NWRS. These comments emphasized 

the cultural heritage and tradition of the 

sport of falconry, and requested that 

falconry be approved as a default use on 

all refuges. These comments were 

concerned with the ambiguity with 

which falconry is addressed in refugespecific regulations, where some refuges 

allow falconry, some refuges prohibit 

falconry, and some refuges do not 

address falconry in their refuge-specific 

regulations. Overall, these comments 

expressed interest in increasing 

opportunities for falconry on refuges. 

Our Response: As stated in our 

response to Comment (1), we allow 

hunting of resident wildlife on NWRs 

only if such activity has been 

determined compatible with the 

established purpose(s) of the refuge and 

the mission of the Refuge System as 

required by the Administration Act. 

Service policy, as outlined in our 

Service manual at 605 FW 2.7M (Special 

Hunts), stipulates, ‘‘We will address 

special types of hunts, such as falconry, 

in the hunt section of the visitor service 

plan (VSP).’’ In other words, each refuge 

manager, when developing their stepdown VSP (which would include a hunt 

plan, if appropriate) from their CCP, 

must first determine if hunting is 

compatible. Assuming it is found to be 

compatible, the refuge manager would 

next determine the conduct of the hunt, 

which might include the use of falconry. 

A refuge manager has discretion to 

restrict hunting and types of hunting, 

specifically falconry, if, for example, 

endangered or threatened species are 

present, the cumulative impacts of a 

type of hunt have not been analyzed or 

are not available, or if a type of special 

hunt is not compatible with the refuge; 

thus, this issue is decided individually 

on a refuge-by-refuge basis. 

We did not make any changes to the 

rule as a result of these comments. 

Comment (4): We received one 

comment requesting the Service 

reconsider their proposed opening of 

black bear archery hunting on Swan 

River NWR in Montana. The commenter 

expressed concerns that the hunting of 

black bears could have an impact on 

threatened grizzly bears. 

Our Response: Based on this public 

comment, the Service has removed 

black bear from the archery hunt on 

Swan River NWR in this final rule. We 

intend to conduct a more detailed 

review of this issue in the future. 

Comment (5): We received a few 

comments requesting that the Service 

not open the Two Rivers unit of Ottawa 

NWR in Ohio to hunting based on the 

concerns of safety, trespassing, liability, 

and driveway maintenance issues. The 

commenters felt that hunters accessing 

the unit would utilize their private road 

to enter the hunting area, and that the 

general public would not obey ‘‘no 

trespassing’’ signs, and if public hunters 

were to hurt themselves on the private 

property, the landowners would be 

liable. The commenters expressed safety 

concerns that hunters would shoot from 

or across the road into their property in 

the pursuit of game, or drive recklessly 

on the road. Finally, the commenters 

expressed concerns over who would 

maintain the road accessing the unit, 

especially during the winter months, as 

the road historically has not been 

maintained regularly by the current 

landowners. 

Our Response: Vehicle access to the 

Two Rivers unit of Ottawa NWR is by 

use of a right-of-way lane through 

private property at the end of a public 

road. Boat access to the unit is by use 

of a boat ramp on Ohio Department of 

Natural Resources property downriver 

of the unit. The refuge has a recorded 

access easement beyond the public road 

to access the Two Rivers unit. 

The 318-acre parcel is not expected to 

receive high levels of visitation because 

it will remain mostly undeveloped. To 

address the maintenance concerns, 

Ottawa NWR will work with adjacent 

landowners to develop a plan to 

maintain the right-of-way so that it is 

safe for refuge visitors and the private 

landowners. 

Safety during the hunting season is of 

paramount importance. All hunters, 

whether on public or private land, are 

responsible to know their target and to 

safely discharge their weapons in the 

pursuit of game. There are numerous 

regulations to promote hunter safety, 

from restrictions on hunting equipment 

and methods, to blaze orange 

requirements. Most hunters in Ohio are 

required to complete a hunter education 

course. Hunter education requirements 

have been adopted by most States, 

including Ohio, to improve hunter 

safety. Ottawa NWR has conducted safe 

and successful hunt programs since 

1961 with no accidental shootings. 

With regards to trespassing, all 

hunters in the State of Ohio are 

responsible for knowing where they are 

on the land. Public lands are 

traditionally surrounded by private land 

holdings, and public land managers 

effectively administer safe and 

successful public hunting programs. 

The Two Rivers unit is no exception. To 

help hunters on the Two Rivers unit, 

Ottawa NWR will construct an 

informational kiosk for the parking lot 

that will include a unit map and rules 

and regulations for public access. The 

refuge will also develop a hunting 

brochure and map that will be available 

both on-site and online. Federal wildlife 

officers and State conservation officers 

will patrol public hunting area to 

enforce game laws and address trespass 

issues. 

All refuge units display standard U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service boundary 

signs along their boundaries. To address 

the trespassing concerns, additional 

private property signs will be installed 

on the back of the refuge boundary signs 

along the Two Rivers unit’s western 

boundary (eastern boundary of adjacent 

private property). 

We did not make any changes to the 

rule as a result of these comments. 

Comment (6): Bear River Migratory 

Bird Refuge received a public comment 

expressing concern that allowing 

hunters to shoot in the units south of 

the D-line levee without a sufficient 

buffer between the levee and the closed 

units north of the levee would cause the 

birds to be disturbed in the closed units. 

Our Response: The Service agrees 

with this comment and has revised the 

regulations in the final rule to include 

a 100-yard (90-m) no hunting buffer 

around the D-line levee. 

Changes From the Proposed Rule 

As discussed above, under Summary 

of Comments and Responses, based on 

comments we received on the proposed 

rule and environmental assessments for 

individual refuges, we made changes in 

this final rule to what we proposed for 

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (in 

Utah) and for Swan River NWR (in 

Montana). Specifically, for Bear River 

Migratory Bird Refuge, we are retaining 

the current shotgun shell limit for 

hunting on or within 50 feet (15 meters) 

from the center of Unit 1A or the 2C 

dike, and we are adding the D line levee 

to the list of refuge areas with a 100- 

yard (90-m) hunting or shooting 

restriction. Bear River Migratory Bird 

Refuge also chose a different alternative 

in their environmental assessment from 

the proposed rule, which was posted on 

the refuge’s website for public comment 

on June 8, 2018, leading to 


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approximately 3,000 additional acres for 

waterfowl hunting, which brings the 

total acres opened or expanded by this 

rule to 251,000. For Swan River NWR, 

we removed black bear from the list of 

species for the archery big game hunt in 

order to conduct further analysis on the 

impacts of hunting this species on the 

refuge. 

Regarding Table 2 under the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act section, we 

were notified of an error for William L. 

Finley NWR in the proposed rule that 

listed an additional 365 days for 

hunting, which should have been an 

additional 365 days for fishing. This 

error has been corrected in this final 

rule and does not change the number of 

user days from the proposed rule. This 

change was deemed minor and not 

controversial. 

Effective Date 

We are making this rule effective 

upon publication in the Federal 

Register (see DATES, above). We 

provided a 30-day public comment 

period for the May 29, 2018, proposed 

rule (83 FR 24598). We have determined 

that any further delay in implementing 

these refuge-specific hunting and sport 

fishing regulations would not be in the 

public interest, in that a delay would 

hinder the effective planning and 

administration of refuges’ hunting and 

fishing programs. This rule does not 

impact the public generally in terms of 

requiring lead time for compliance. 

Rather, it relieves restrictions in that it 

allows activities on refuges that we 

would otherwise prohibit. Therefore, we 

find good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) 

to make this rule effective upon 

publication. 

Amendments to Existing Regulations 

This document codifies in the Code of 

Federal Regulations all of the Service’s 

hunting and/or sport fishing regulations 

that we are updating since the last time 

we published a rule amending these 

regulations (82 FR 51940; November 8, 

2017) and that are applicable at Refuge 

System units previously opened to 

hunting and/or sport fishing. We are 

taking this action to better inform the 

general public of the regulations at each 

refuge, to increase understanding and 

compliance with these regulations, and 

to make enforcement of these 

regulations more efficient. In addition to 

now finding these regulations in 50 CFR 

part 32, visitors to our refuges may find 

them reiterated in literature distributed 

by each refuge or posted on signs. 

TABLE 1—CHANGES FOR 2018–2019 HUNTING/FISHING SEASON

Refuge/region 

(*) State Migratory bird hunting 

Upland game 

hunting 

Big game 

hunting Sport fishing 

Bear River (6) .......................... Utah ......................................... C .......................... C .......................... Closed ................. Already Open. 

Blackwater (5) .......................... Maryland .................................. C .......................... Closed ................. C .......................... Already Open. 

Cedar Point (3) ........................ Ohio ......................................... Closed ................. Closed ................. B .......................... Already Open. 

Charles M. Russell (6) ............. Montana .................................. Already Open ...... Already Open ...... C .......................... Already Open. 

Cherry Valley (5) ...................... Pennsylvania ........................... C .......................... C .......................... C .......................... Closed. 

Cold Springs (1) ....................... Oregon .................................... Already Open ...... Already Open ...... B .......................... Already Open. 

Cypress Creek (3) ................... Illinois ...................................... C .......................... C .......................... C .......................... Already Open. 

Edwin B. Forsythe (5) .............. New Jersey ............................. C .......................... B .......................... C/D ...................... Already Open. 

Felsenthal (4) ........................... Arkansas ................................. C .......................... C .......................... C .......................... Already Open. 

Glacial Ridge (3) ...................... Minnesota ................................ C .......................... C/D ...................... C .......................... Closed. 

Great River (3) ......................... Illinois and Missouri ................. C .......................... C .......................... C .......................... C. 

Hackmatack (3) ........................ Illinois and Wisconsin .............. A .......................... A .......................... A .......................... Closed. 

J. Clark Salyer (6) .................... North Dakota ........................... Already Open ...... Already Open ...... D .......................... Already Open. 

John Heinz (5) ......................... Pennsylvania ........................... Closed ................. Closed ................. B .......................... Already Open. 

Kankakee (3) ........................... Illinois ...................................... Closed ................. Already Open ...... Already Open ...... Closed. 

Lake Woodruff (4) .................... Florida ..................................... Closed ................. Closed ................. D .......................... Already Open. 

Lostwood (6) ............................ North Dakota ........................... Closed ................. Already Open ...... D .......................... Closed. 

Moosehorn (5) ......................... Maine ....................................... C .......................... C .......................... C .......................... Already Open. 

Ottawa (3) ................................ Ohio ......................................... C/D ...................... B .......................... C/D ...................... Already Open. 

Patoka River (3) ....................... Indiana ..................................... C .......................... C .......................... C .......................... C. 

Patuxent (5) ............................. Maryland .................................. Already Open ...... Already Open ...... C .......................... Already Open. 

Rachel Carson (5) ................... Maine ....................................... Already Open ...... Already Open ...... C .......................... Already Open. 

San Pablo Bay (8) ................... California ................................. C .......................... Already Open ...... Closed ................. B. 

Sevilleta (2) .............................. New Mexico ............................. C/D ...................... B .......................... Closed ................. Closed. 

Shiawassee (3) ........................ Michigan .................................. C/D ...................... B .......................... C .......................... Already Open. 

Swan River (6) ......................... Montana .................................. Already Open ...... Closed ................. B .......................... Already Open. 

Trempealeau (3) ...................... Wisconsin ................................ C .......................... B .......................... C .......................... Already Open. 

Umbagog (5) ............................ Maine and New Hampshire .... Already Open ...... Already Open ...... C .......................... Closed. 

Upper Klamath (8) ................... Oregon .................................... C .......................... Closed ................. Closed ................. Already Open. 

Wallkill (5) ................................ New Jersey and New York ..... C .......................... Already Open ...... Already Open ...... C. 

William L. Finley (1) ................. Oregon .................................... Closed ................. Closed ................. Already Open ...... C. 

* Number in ( ) refers to the Region as defined in the preamble to this rule under Available Information for Specific Refuges. 

Key: 

A = New refuge opened. 

B = New activity on a refuge previously open to other activities. 

C = Refuge already open to activity, but added new lands/waters or modified areas open to hunting or fishing. 

D = Refuge already open to activity but added new species to hunt. 

E = Activity is being closed on the refuge. 

The changes for the 2018–2019 

hunting/fishing season noted in the 

chart above are each based on a 

complete administrative record which, 

among other detailed documentation, 

also includes a hunt plan, a 

compatibility determination, and the 

appropriate NEPA analysis, all of which 

were the subject of a public review and 

comment process. These documents are 

available upon request. 


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Fish Advisory 

For health reasons, anglers should 

review and follow State-issued 

consumption advisories before enjoying 

recreational sport fishing opportunities 

on Service-managed waters. You can 

find information about current fishconsumption advisories on the internet 

at: http://www.epa.gov/fish-tech. 

Executive Order 13771—Reducing 

Regulation and Controlling Regulatory 

Costs 

This final rule is not an Executive 

Order (E.O.) 13771 (82 FR 9339, 

February 3, 2017) regulatory action 

because this final rule is not significant 

under E.O. 12866. 

Regulatory Planning and Review 

(Executive Orders 12866 and 13563) 

Executive Order 12866 provides that 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs (OIRA) will review all significant 

rules. OIRA has determined that this 

rulemaking is not significant. 

Executive Order 13563 reaffirms the 

principles of E.O. 12866 while calling 

for improvements in the nation’s 

regulatory system to promote 

predictability, to reduce uncertainty, 

and to use the best, most innovative, 

and least burdensome tools for 

achieving regulatory ends. The 

executive order directs agencies to 

consider regulatory approaches that 

reduce burdens and maintain flexibility 

and freedom of choice for the public 

where these approaches are relevant, 

feasible, and consistent with regulatory 

objectives. E.O. 13563 emphasizes 

further that regulations must be based 

on the best available science and that 

the rulemaking process must allow for 

public participation and an open 

exchange of ideas. We have developed 

this rule in a manner consistent with 

these requirements. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act 

(as amended by the Small Business 

Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act 

[SBREFA] of 1996) (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), 

whenever a Federal agency is required 

to publish a notice of rulemaking for 

any proposed or final rule, it must 

prepare and make available for public 

comment a regulatory flexibility 

analysis that describes the effect of the 

rule on small entities (i.e., small 

businesses, small organizations, and 

small government jurisdictions). 

However, no regulatory flexibility 

analysis is required if the head of an 

agency certifies that the rule will not 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities. 

Thus, for a regulatory flexibility analysis 

to be required, impacts must exceed a 

threshold for ‘‘significant impact’’ and a 

threshold for a ‘‘substantial number of 

small entities.’’ See 5 U.S.C. 605(b). 

SBREFA amended the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act to require Federal 

agencies to provide a statement of the 

factual basis for certifying that a rule 

will not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. 

This final rule adds 4 NWRs to the list 

of refuges open to sport fishing and 

hunting and increases hunting or fishing 

activities on 26 additional NWRs. As a 

result, visitor use for wildlife-dependent 

recreation on these NWRs will change. 

If the refuges establishing new programs 

were a pure addition to the current 

supply of those activities, it would 

mean an estimated increase of 17,575 

user days (one person per day 

participating in a recreational 

opportunity, Table 2). Because the 

participation trend is flat in these 

activities since 1991, this increase in 

supply will most likely be offset by 

other sites losing participants. 

Therefore, this is likely to be a 

substitute site for the activity and not 

necessarily an increase in participation 

rates for the activity. 

TABLE 2—ESTIMATED CHANGE IN RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES IN 2018/2019 

[Dollars in thousands] 

Refuge Additional 

hunting days 

Additional 

fishing days 

Additional 

expenditures 

Bear River .................................................................................................................................... 0 ........................ $0 

Blackwater ................................................................................................................................... 637 ........................ 25.7 

Charles M. Russell ...................................................................................................................... 500 ........................ 20.1 

Cherry Valley ............................................................................................................................... 240 ........................ 9.7 

Cold Springs ................................................................................................................................ 25 ........................ 1.0 

Cypress Creek ............................................................................................................................. 1,650 ........................ 66.5 

Edwin B. Forsythe ....................................................................................................................... 350 ........................ 14.1 

Felsenthal .................................................................................................................................... 206 ........................ 8.3 

Glacial Ridge ............................................................................................................................... 54 ........................ 2.2 

Great River .................................................................................................................................. 1,000 200 48.9 

Hackmatack ................................................................................................................................. 100 30 5.3 

J. Clark Salyer ............................................................................................................................. 100 ........................ 4.0 

John Heinz ................................................................................................................................... 10 ........................ 0.4 

Lake Woodruff ............................................................................................................................. 10 ........................ 0.4 

Lostwood ...................................................................................................................................... 100 ........................ 4.0 

Moosehorn ................................................................................................................................... 25 ........................ 1.0 

Ottawa/Cedar Point ..................................................................................................................... 1,424 ........................ 57.4 

Patoka River ................................................................................................................................ 75 25 4.1 

Rachel Carson ............................................................................................................................. 57 365 17.9 

San Pablo Bay ............................................................................................................................. 100 365 19.7 

Sevilleta ....................................................................................................................................... 50 ........................ 2.0 

Shiawassee .................................................................................................................................. 1,675 ........................ 67.5 

Swan River .................................................................................................................................. 224 ........................ 9.0 

Trempealeau ................................................................................................................................ 218 ........................ 8.8 

Umbagog ..................................................................................................................................... 5,950 ........................ 239.7 

Upper Klamath ............................................................................................................................. 900 ........................ 36.3 

Wallkill .......................................................................................................................................... 180 365 22.9 

William L. Finley .......................................................................................................................... 0 365 14.7 

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To the extent visitors spend time and 

money in the area of the refuge that they 

would not have spent there anyway, 

they contribute new income to the 

regional economy and benefit local 

businesses. Due to the unavailability of 

site-specific expenditure data, we use 

the national estimates from the 2011 

National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, 

and Wildlife Associated Recreation to 

identify expenditures for food and 

lodging, transportation, and other 

incidental expenses. Using the average 

expenditures for these categories with 

the maximum expected additional 

participation of the Refuge System 

yields approximately $711,000 in 

recreation-related expenditures (Table 

2). By having ripple effects throughout 

the economy, these direct expenditures 

are only part of the economic impact of 

these recreational activities. Using a 

national impact multiplier for hunting 

activities (2.27) derived from the report 

‘‘Hunting in America: An Economic 

Force for Conservation’’ and for fishing 

activities (2.40) derived from the report 

‘‘Sportfishing in America’’ yields a total 

economic impact of approximately $1.6 

million (2017 dollars) (Southwick 

Associates, Inc., 2012). Using a local 

impact multiplier would yield more 

accurate and smaller results. However, 

we employed the national impact 

multiplier due to the difficulty in 

developing local multipliers for each 

specific region. 

Since we know that most of the 

fishing and hunting occurs within 100 

miles of a participant’s residence, then 

it is unlikely that most of this spending 

would be ‘‘new’’ money coming into a 

local economy; therefore, this spending 

would be offset with a decrease in some 

other sector of the local economy. The 

net gain to the local economies would 

be no more than $1.6 million, and most 

likely considerably less. Since 80 

percent of the participants travel less 

than 100 miles to engage in hunting and 

fishing activities, their spending 

patterns would not add new money into 

the local economy and, therefore, the 

real impact would be on the order of 

about $325,000 annually. 

Small businesses within the retail 

trade industry (such as hotels, gas 

stations, taxidermy shops, bait-andtackle shops, and similar businesses) 

may be affected by some increased or 

decreased refuge visitation. A large 

percentage of these retail trade 

establishments in the local communities 

around NWRs qualify as small 

businesses (Table 3). We expect that the 

incremental recreational changes will be 

scattered, and so we do not expect that 

the rule will have a significant 

economic effect on a substantial number 

of small entities in any region or 

nationally. As noted previously, we 

expect approximately $711,000 to be 

spent in total in the refuges’ local 

economies. The maximum increase 

would be less than two-tenths of 1 

percent for local retail trade spending 

(Table 3). 

TABLE 3—COMPARATIVE EXPENDITURES FOR RETAIL TRADE ASSOCIATED WITH ADDITIONAL REFUGE

VISITATION FOR 2018/2019 

[Thousands, 2017 dollars] 

Refuge/county(ies) Retail trade 

in 2012 

Estimated 

maximum 

addition from 

new activities 

Addition as 

% of total 

Establishments 

in 2012 

Establishments 

with <10 

employees 

in 2012 

Blackwater: 

Dorchester, MD ................................................... $308,272 $25.7 <0.01 100 74 

Charles M. Russell: 

McCone, MT ....................................................... 24,790 20.1 0.08 10 7 

Cherry Valley: 

Monroe, PA ......................................................... 2,285,124 4.8 <0.01 633 424 

Northampton, PA ................................................ 3,872,709 4.8 <0.01 879 603 

Cold Springs: 

Umatilla, OR ....................................................... 857,045 1.0 <0.01 224 155 

Cypress Creek: 

Pulaski, IL ........................................................... 37,328 66.5 0.18 18 15 

Edwin B. Forsythe: 

Atlantic, NJ .......................................................... 4,583,003 4.7 <0.01 1,229 840 

Burlington, NJ ..................................................... 7,333,114 4.7 <0.01 1,423 939 

Ocean, NJ ........................................................... 8,215,768 4.7 <0.01 1,866 1,327 

Felsenthal: 

Ashley, AR .......................................................... 197,731 2.8 <0.01 86 67 

Bradley, AR ......................................................... 105,539 2.8 <0.01 39 28 

Union, AR ........................................................... 545,629 2.8 <0.01 209 155 

Glacial Ridge: 

Polk, MN ............................................................. 354,022 2.2 <0.01 110 74 

Great River: 

Pike, MO ............................................................. 203,871 48.9 0.02 64 45 

Hackmatack: 

McHenry, IL ........................................................ 3,912,156 2.7 <0.01 940 629 

Walworth, WI ...................................................... 1,317,927 2.7 <0.01 359 264 

J. Clark Salyer: 

Bottineau, ND ..................................................... 101,939 2.0 <0.01 35 28 

McHenry, ND ...................................................... 28,290 2.0 0.01 17 12 

John Heinz: 

Delaware, PA ...................................................... 6,906,244 0.2 <0.01 1,704 1,146 

Philadelphia, PA ................................................. 13,069,101 0.2 <0.01 4,524 3,448 

Lake Woodruff: 

Volusia, FL .......................................................... 6,585,374 0.4 <0.01 1,871 1,412 

Lostwood: 

Burke, ND ........................................................... 41,148 2.0 <0.01 10 6 

Montrail, ND ........................................................ 292,497 2.0 <0.01 41 27 


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TABLE 3—COMPARATIVE EXPENDITURES FOR RETAIL TRADE ASSOCIATED WITH ADDITIONAL REFUGE—Continued 

VISITATION FOR 2018/2019 

[Thousands, 2017 dollars] 

Refuge/county(ies) Retail trade 

in 2012 

Estimated 

maximum 

addition from 

new activities 

Addition as 

% of total 

Establishments 

in 2012 

Establishments 

with <10 

employees 

in 2012 

Moosehorn: 

Washington, ME ................................................. 462,433 1.0 <0.01 151 100 

Ottawa/Cedar Point: 

Lucas, OH ........................................................... 6,382,144 28.7 <0.01 1,452 965 

Ottawa, OH ......................................................... 456,610 28.7 0.01 142 109 

Patoka River: 

Gibson, IN ........................................................... 595,275 2.0 <0.01 122 84 

Pike, IN ............................................................... 77,438 2.0 <0.01 31 23 

Patuxent Research Refuge: 

Anne Arundel, MD .............................................. 9,351,065 .......................... .......................... 2,014 1,286 

Prince George’s, MD .......................................... 9,990,887 .......................... .......................... 2,221 1,439 

Rachel Carson: 

York, ME ............................................................. 2,614,299 17.9 <0.01 870 653 

San Pablo Bay: 

Napa, CA ............................................................ 1,813,897 6.6 <0.01 526 374 

Solano, CA .......................................................... 5,451,956 6.6 <0.01 1,066 682 

Sonoma, CA ....................................................... 6,423,178 6.6 <0.01 1,766 1,274 

Sevilleta: 

Socorro, NM ........................................................ 127,902 2.0 <0.01 39 31 

Shiawassee: 

Saginaw, MI ........................................................ 3,110,321 67.5 <0.01 871 590 

Swan River: 

Lake, MT ............................................................. 286,486 9.0 <0.01 120 89 

Trempealeau: 

Buffalo, WI .......................................................... 83,043 4.4 0.01 47 38 

Trempealeau, WI ................................................ 344,603 4.4 <0.01 104 67 

Umbagog: 

Oxford, ME .......................................................... 652,741 119.9 0.02 222 163 

Coos, NH ............................................................ 604,938 119.9 0.02 184 143 

Upper Klamath: 

Klamath, OR ....................................................... 808,680 36.3 <0.01 241 155 

Wallkill River: 

Sussex, NJ .......................................................... 1,942,879 11.4 <0.01 414 299 

Orange, NY ......................................................... 6,641,744 11.4 <0.01 1,506 1,017 

William L. Finley: 

Linn, OR .............................................................. 1,261,501 14.7 <0.01 339 247 

With the small change in overall 

spending anticipated from this final 

rule, it is unlikely that a substantial 

number of small entities will have more 

than a small impact from the spending 

change near the affected refuges. 

Therefore, we certify that this rule will 

not have a significant economic effect 

on a substantial number of small entities 

as defined under the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). A 

regulatory flexibility analysis is not 

required. Accordingly, a small entity 

compliance guide is not required. 

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act 

The final rule is not a major rule 

under 5 U.S.C. 804(2), the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act. We anticipate no 

significant employment or small 

business effects. This rule: 

a. Will not have an annual effect on 

the economy of 100 million or more. 

The minimal impact will be scattered 

across the country and will most likely 

not be significant in any local area. 

b. Will not cause a major increase in 

costs or prices for consumers; 

individual industries; Federal, State, or 

local government agencies; or 

geographic regions. This rule will have 

only a slight effect on the costs of 

hunting opportunities for Americans. If 

the substitute sites are farther from the 

participants’ residences, then an 

increase in travel costs will occur. The 

Service does not have information to 

quantify this change in travel cost but 

assumes that, since most people travel 

less than 100 miles to hunt, the 

increased travel cost will be small. We 

do not expect this rule to affect the 

supply or demand for hunting 

opportunities in the United States, and, 

therefore, it should not affect prices for 

hunting equipment and supplies, or the 

retailers that sell equipment. 

c. Will not have significant adverse 

effects on competition, employment, 

investment, productivity, innovation, or 

the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to 

compete with foreign-based enterprises. 

This rule represents only a small 

proportion of recreational spending at 

NWRs. Therefore, this rule will have no 

measurable economic effect on the 

wildlife-dependent industry, which has 

annual sales of equipment and travel 

expenditures of $72 billion nationwide. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

Since this final rule will apply to 

public use of federally owned and 

managed refuges, it will not impose an 

unfunded mandate on State, local, or 

Tribal governments or the private sector 

of more than $100 million per year. The 

rule will not have a significant or 

unique effect on State, local, or Tribal 

governments or the private sector. A 

statement containing the information 

required by the Unfunded Mandates 


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Reform Act (2 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) is not 

required. 

Takings (E.O. 12630) 

In accordance with E.O. 12630, this 

final rule will not have significant 

takings implications. This rule will 

affect only visitors at NWRs and 

describe what they can do while they 

are on a refuge. 

Federalism (E.O. 13132) 

As discussed in Regulatory Planning 

and Review and Unfunded Mandates 

Reform Act, above, this final rule will 

not have sufficient federalism 

implications to warrant the preparation 

of a federalism summary impact 

statement under E.O. 13132. In 

preparing this final rule, we worked 

with State governments. 

Civil Justice Reform (E.O. 12988) 

In accordance with E.O. 12988, the 

Department of the Interior has 

determined that this final rule will not 

unduly burden the judicial system and 

that it meets the requirements of 

sections 3(a) and 3(b)(2) of the Order. 

Energy Supply, Distribution or Use 

(E.O. 13211) 

On May 18, 2001, the President issued 

E.O. 13211 on regulations that 

significantly affect energy supply, 

distribution, or use. E.O. 13211 requires 

agencies to prepare Statements of 

Energy Effects when undertaking certain 

actions. Because this final rule will 

open 3 refuges to hunting, open 1 refuge 

to sport fishing, increase the hunting 

activities available at 26 refuges, and 

increase sport fishing activities at 4 

refuges, it is not a significant regulatory 

action under E.O. 12866, and we do not 

expect it to significantly affect energy 

supplies, distribution, or use. Therefore, 

this action is not a significant energy 

action, and no Statement of Energy 

Effects is required. 

Consultation and Coordination With 

Indian Tribal Governments (E.O. 

13175) 

In accordance with E.O. 13175, we 

have evaluated possible effects on 

federally recognized Indian tribes and 

have determined that there are no 

effects. We coordinate recreational use 

on NWRs with Tribal governments 

having adjoining or overlapping 

jurisdiction before we propose the 

regulations. 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

This rule does not contain any new 

collections of information that require 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.). OMB has previously approved 

the information collection requirements 

associated with regulations 

implementing refuge-specific hunting 

and sport fishing regulations and 

assigned the following OMB control 

numbers: 

• 1018–0102, ‘‘National Wildlife 

Refuge Special Use Permit Applications 

and Reports, 50 CFR 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 

31, 32, & 36’’ (expires August 31, 2020), 

• 1018–0140, ‘‘Hunting and Fishing 

Application Forms and Activity Reports 

for National Wildlife Refuges, 50 CFR 

25.41, 25.43, 25.51, 26.32, 26.33, 27.42, 

30.11, 31.15, 32.1 to 32.72’’ (expires July 

31, 2021), and 

• 1018–0153, ‘‘National Wildlife 

Refuge Visitor Check-In Permit and Use 

Report’’ (expires December 31, 2018). 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Endangered Species Act Section 7 

Consultation 

We comply with section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), when 

developing comprehensive conservation 

plans and step-down management 

plans—which would include hunting 

and/or fishing plans—for public use of 

refuges, and prior to implementing any 

new or revised public recreation 

program on a refuge as identified in 50 

CFR 26.32. We have completed section 

7 consultation on each of the affected 

refuges. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

We analyzed this rule in accordance 

with the criteria of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4332(C)), 43 CFR part 

46, and 516 Departmental Manual 

(DM) 8. 

A categorical exclusion from NEPA 

documentation applies to publication of 

amendments to refuge-specific hunting 

and fishing regulations because they are 

technical and procedural in nature, and 

the environmental effects are too broad, 

speculative, or conjectural to lend 

themselves to meaningful analysis (43 

CFR 46.210 and 516 DM 8). Concerning 

the actions that are the subject of this 

rulemaking, we have complied with 

NEPA at the project level when 

developing each proposal. This is 

consistent with the Department of the 

Interior instructions for compliance 

with NEPA where actions are covered 

sufficiently by an earlier environmental 

document (43 CFR 46.120). 

Prior to the addition of a refuge to the 

list of areas open to hunting and fishing 

in 50 CFR part 32, we develop hunting 

and fishing plans for the affected 

refuges. We incorporate these proposed 

refuge hunting and fishing activities in 

the refuge comprehensive conservation 

plan and/or other step-down 

management plans, pursuant to our 

refuge planning guidance in 602 Fish 

and Wildlife Service Manual (FW) 1, 3, 

and 4. We prepare these comprehensive 

conservation plans and step-down plans 

in compliance with section 102(2)(C) of 

NEPA, and the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s regulations for 

implementing NEPA in 40 CFR parts 

1500 through 1508. We invite the 

affected public to participate in the 

review, development, and 

implementation of these plans. Copies 

of all plans and NEPA compliance are 

available from the refuges at the 

addresses provided below. 

Available Information for Specific 

Refuges 

Individual refuge headquarters have 

information about public use programs 

and conditions that apply to their 

specific programs and maps of their 

respective areas. To find out how to 

contact a specific refuge, contact the 

appropriate Regional office listed below: 

Region 1—Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and 

Washington. Regional Chief, National 

Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Eastside Federal 

Complex, Suite 1692, 911 NE 11th 

Avenue, Portland, OR 97232–4181; 

Telephone (503) 231–6214. 

Region 2—Arizona, New Mexico, 

Oklahoma, and Texas. Regional Chief, 

National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 

1306, 500 Gold Avenue SW, 

Albuquerque, NM 87103; Telephone 

(505) 248–6937. 

Region 3—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 

Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, 

and Wisconsin. Regional Chief, National 

Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 5600 American Blvd. 

West, Suite 990, Bloomington, MN 

55437–1458; Telephone (612) 713–5360. 

Region 4—Alabama, Arkansas, 

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, 

Mississippi, North Carolina, South 

Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, and 

the Virgin Islands. Regional Chief, 

National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century 

Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30345; 

Telephone (404) 679–7166. 

Region 5—Connecticut, Delaware, 

District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, 

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New 

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode 

Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West 


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Virginia. Regional Chief, National 

Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 300 Westgate Center 

Drive, Hadley, MA 01035–9589; 

Telephone (413) 253–8307. 

Region 6—Colorado, Kansas, 

Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, 

South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. 

Regional Chief, National Wildlife Refuge 

System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

134 Union Blvd., Lakewood, CO 80228; 

Telephone (303) 236–8145. 

Region 7—Alaska. Regional Chief, 

National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 E Tudor 

Rd., Anchorage, AK 99503; Telephone 

(907) 786–3545. 

Region 8—California and Nevada. 

Regional Chief, National Wildlife Refuge 

System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

2800 Cottage Way, Room W–2606, 

Sacramento, CA 95825; Telephone (916) 

414–6464. 

Primary Author 

Katherine Harrigan, Division of 

Natural Resources and Conservation 

Planning, National Wildlife Refuge 

System, is the primary author of this 

rulemaking document. 

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 32 

Fishing, Hunting, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements, Wildlife, 

Wildlife refuges. 

Regulation Promulgation 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, we amend title 50, chapter I, 

subchapter C of the Code of Federal 

Regulations as follows: 

PART 32—HUNTING AND FISHING 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 32 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 460k, 

664, 668dd–668ee, and 715i; Pub. L. 115–20, 

131 Stat. 86. 

§ 32.7 [Amended] 

■ 2. Amend § 32.7 by adding, in 

alphabetical order, an entry for 

‘‘Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge’’ 

in the State of Illinois and in the State 

of Wisconsin. 

■ 3. Amend § 32.23 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Bald Knob 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising the entry Big Lake 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Cache River 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Dale Bumpers 

White River National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ e. Revising the entry Felsenthal 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ f. Revising the entry Holla Bend 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ g. Revising the entry Overflow 

National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ h. Revising the entry Wapanocca 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.23 Arkansas. 

* * * * * 

Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

snipe, woodcock, and dove on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require refuge hunting permits 

(signed brochure). The permits are 

nontransferable, and anyone on refuge 

land in possession of hunting 

equipment must possess a signed permit 

at all times. 

2. We prohibit migratory game bird 

hunting on the refuge during the Quota 

Gun Deer Hunt. 

3. With the exception of hunting for 

woodcock, we prohibit migratory game 

bird hunting after 12 p.m. (noon) during 

the regular State waterfowl hunting 

season. 

4. We allow hunting for woodcock 

daily throughout the State season. 

5. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot shells for hunting while 

in the field (see § 32.2(k)) in quantities 

of 25 or fewer. The possession limit 

includes shells located in or on vehicles 

and other personal equipment. The field 

possession limit for shells does not 

apply to goose hunting during the State 

Conservation Order. 

6. We prohibit hunting closer than 

100 yards (90 meters) to another hunter 

or hunting party. 

7. You must remove decoys, blinds, 

boats, and all other equipment (see 

§ 27.93 of this chapter) daily by 1 p.m. 

8. We open the refuge to daylight use 

only, 30 minutes before legal sunrise to 

30 minutes after legal sunset, with the 

exception that hunters may enter the 

refuge beginning at 4 a.m. and must exit 

by 1 hour after legal shooting time ends. 

9. Boats with the owner’s name and 

address permanently displayed or 

displaying valid registration may be left 

on the refuge from March 1 through 

October 31. We prohibit the use of boats 

from 12 a.m. (midnight) to 4 a.m. during 

duck season. 

10. We allow use of dogs for migratory 

game bird hunting. 

11. We prohibit airboats, hovercraft, 

and personal watercraft (Jet Ski, etc.). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, quail, 

raccoon, opossum, beaver, muskrat, 

nutria, armadillo, and coyote on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A8, and A11 apply. 

2. Hunters may use shotguns only 

with approved nontoxic shot (see 

§ 32.2(k)) and rifles chambered for 

rimfire cartridges. 

3. We allow squirrel hunting 

September 1 through February 28, 

except for season closure of the refuge 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We 

allow dogs. 

4. We allow rabbit hunting in 

accordance with the State season, 

except for season closure of the refuge 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We 

allow dogs. 

5. We allow quail hunting in 

accordance with the State season, 

except for season closure of the refuge 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We 

allow dogs. 

6. We allow hunting of raccoon and 

opossum with dogs. We require dogs for 

hunting raccoon/opossum at night, 30 

minutes after legal sunset to 30 minutes 

before legal sunrise. We list annual 

season dates in the refuge hunting 

brochure/permit. We prohibit field trials 

and organized training events. 

7. Hunters may take beaver, muskrat, 

nutria, armadillo, and coyote during any 

refuge hunt with those weapons legal 

during those hunts, subject to applicable 

State seasons and regulations. 

8. We limit nighttime hunting to 

raccoon/opossum hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer, feral hog, and turkey on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A8, and A11 apply. 

2. We divide the refuge into two 

hunting units: Farm Unit and Mingo 

Creek Unit. 

3. The archery/crossbow hunting 

season for deer begins on the opening 

day of the State season and continues 

throughout the State season in the 

Mingo Creek Unit and Farm Unit except 

for the season closure of the refuge 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We 

provide annual season dates and bag 

limits in the hunt brochure/permit 

(signature required). 

4. Muzzleloader hunting season for 

deer will begin in October and continue 

for a period of up to 9 days in all 

hunting units with annual season dates 

and bag limits provided on the hunt 

brochure/permit. 

5. The modern gun hunting season for 

deer will begin in November and 

continue for a period of up to 9 days in 

all hunting units with annual season 

dates and bag limits provided in the 

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6. We prohibit spring and fall gun 

hunting for turkey. 

7. All harvested game must be 

checked according to State regulations. 

The Refuge zone to be reported is 002. 

8. You may use only shotguns with 

rifled slugs, muzzleloaders, and legal 

pistols for modern gun deer hunting on 

the Farm Unit. 

9. We allow only portable deer stands. 

You may erect stands 7 days prior to the 

refuge deer season and must remove 

them from the waterfowl sanctuaries 

prior to November 15, except for stands 

used by Quota Gun Deer Hunt permit 

holders (fee/signature required), which 

you must remove by the last day of the 

Quota Gun Deer Hunt. You must remove 

all stands on the remainder of the refuge 

within 7 days of the closure of archery 

season (see § 27.93 of this chapter). We 

prohibit leaving any tree stand, ground 

blind, or game camera on the refuge 

without the owner’s name and address 

clearly written in a conspicuous 

location. 

10. We prohibit the possession or use 

of buckshot for hunting on all refuge 

lands. 

11. We prohibit hunting from mowed 

and/or graveled road rights-of-way. 

12. Refuge lands are located in Statedesignated Flood Prone Region B, and 

we will close them to all deer hunting 

when the White River Gauge at Augusta 

reaches 31 feet (9.3 meters (m)), as 

reported by the National Weather 

Service, and reopen them when the 

same gauge reading falls below 30 feet 

(9.1 m) and the White River Gauge at 

Georgetown falls to, or below, 19 feet 

(5.7 m). 

13. We allow only Quota Gun Deer 

Hunt permit holders on the refuge 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt and 

only for the purposes of deer hunting. 

We close the refuge to all other entry 

and public use during the Quota Gun 

Deer Hunt. 

14. We close waterfowl sanctuaries to 

all entry and hunting from November 15 

to February 28, except for Quota Gun 

Deer Hunt permit holders who may 

hunt in the sanctuary when the season 

overlaps with these dates. 

15. You may enter the refuge at 4 a.m. 

and remain until 1 hour after legal 

shooting time. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A8 and B8 apply. 

2. We close waterfowl sanctuaries to 

all entry from November 15 to February 

28. We also close the refuge to all entry 

and fishing during the Quota Gun Deer 

Hunt. 

3. We prohibit commercial fishing. 

4. We prohibit the take or possession 

of turtles and/or mollusks (see § 27.21 of 

this chapter). 

5. We prohibit mooring houseboats to 

the refuge bank on the Little Red River. 

Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, 

nutria, coyote, beaver, and opossum on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require refuge hunt permits. 

The permits (found on the front cover of 

the annual hunt brochure/permit— 

signature required) are nontransferable 

and anyone on refuge land in possession 

of hunting equipment must sign and 

carry the permit at all times. 

2. We provide annual season dates for 

squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, and opossum 

hunting in the refuge hunting brochure/ 

permit. 

3. We allow take of nutria, beaver, and 

coyote during any refuge hunt with the 

device allowed for that hunt subject to 

applicable State seasons and 

regulations. 

4. You may take opossum when 

hunting raccoon. 

5. We require dogs for night hunting 

of raccoon and opossum. We prohibit 

field trials and organized training 

events. 

6. When hunting, you may only use 

shotguns with approved nontoxic shot 

(see § 32.2(k)) and rifles chambered for 

rimfire cartridges. 

7. We prohibit boats from November 

1 through February 28, except on that 

portion of the refuge open for public 

fishing with electric motors and Ditch 

28. 

8. We prohibit hunting from mowed 

and/or gravel road rights-of-way. 

9. We limit nighttime use, 30 minutes 

after legal sunset to 30 minutes before 

legal sunrise, to fishing, frogging, and/ 

or raccoon/opossum hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions B1, B3, and B6 through 

B9 apply. 

2. We allow archery/crossbow 

hunting for white-tailed deer. We 

provide annual season dates in the hunt 

brochure/permit. 

3. Hunters may use only bows or 

crossbows. 

4. Hunters may use only 

biodegradable materials to mark trails. 

5. All harvested game must be 

checked according to State regulations. 

The Refuge zone to be reported is 030. 

6. We allow only portable deer stands. 

You may erect stands 7 days prior to the 

refuge deer season and must remove 

them 7 days after the closure of archery 

season (see § 27.93 of this chapter). 

7. Hunters may enter the refuge no 

earlier than 4 a.m. and must leave one 

hour after legal sunset. 

8. We prohibit leaving any tree stand, 

ground blind, or game camera on the 

refuge. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and frogging on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Condition B7 applies. 

2. Anglers may launch boats only in 

designated areas. 

3. We prohibit airboats, personal 

watercraft, Jet Skis, and hovercraft (see 

§ 27.31 of this chapter). 

4. We allow frogging from the 

beginning of the State frogging season 

through October 31. 

5. We prohibit the take or possession 

of turtles and/or mollusks (see § 27.21 of 

this chapter). 

Cache River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

snipe, woodcock, and dove on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require refuge hunting permits. 

These permits (found on the front cover 

of the annual hunt brochure/permit— 

signature required) are nontransferable, 

and anyone on the refuge in possession 

of hunting equipment must sign and 

carry the permit at all times. 

2. We prohibit migratory game bird 

hunting on the refuge during the Quota 

Gun Deer Hunt. 

3. With the exception of hunting for 

woodcock, we prohibit migratory game 

bird hunting after 12 p.m. (noon) during 

the regular State waterfowl hunting 

season. 

4. We allow hunting for woodcock 

daily throughout the State seasons. 

5. You must remove decoys, blinds, 

boats, and all other equipment (see 

§ 27.93 of this chapter) daily by 1 p.m. 

6. Waterfowl hunters may enter the 

refuge at 4 a.m. and hunt until 12 p.m. 

(noon). 

7. Boats with the owner’s name and 

address permanently displayed or 

displaying valid registration may be left 

on the refuge from March 1 through 

October 31. We prohibit boats on the 

refuge from 12 a.m. (midnight) to 4 a.m. 

during duck season. 

8. We allow use of dogs for migratory 

game bird hunting. 

9. We allow waterfowl hunting on 

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10. We close all other hunts during 

the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We allow 

only Quota Gun Deer Hunt permit (fee/ 

signature required) holders to enter the 

refuge during this hunt and only for the 

purpose of deer hunting. 

11. We prohibit airboats, hovercraft, 

and personal watercraft (Jet Ski, etc.) 

(see § 27.31 of this chapter). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, quail, 

raccoon, opossum, beaver, muskrat, 

nutria, armadillo, and coyote on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A10, and A11 

apply. 

2. We allow squirrel hunting 

September 1 through February 28, 

except for refuge-wide season closure 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We 

allow dogs. 

3. Rabbit season corresponds with the 

State season, except for refuge-wide 

season closure during the Quota Gun 

Deer Hunt. We allow dogs. 

4. Quail season corresponds with the 

State season, except for refuge-wide 

season closure during the Quota Gun 

Deer Hunt. We allow dogs. 

5. We allow hunting of raccoon and 

opossum with dogs. We require dogs for 

hunting of raccoon/opossum at night, 30 

minutes after legal sunset to 30 minutes 

before legal sunrise. We provide annual 

season dates in the refuge hunting 

brochure/permit. We prohibit field trials 

and organized training events. 

6. You may take beaver, muskrat, 

nutria, armadillo, and coyote during any 

refuge hunt with those weapons legal 

during those hunts subject to applicable 

State seasons and regulations. 

7. We prohibit hunting from mowed 

and/or graveled refuge roads except by 

waterfowl hunters during flooded 

conditions. 

8. You may use only shotguns with 

approved nontoxic shot (see § 32.2(k)) 

and rifles chambered for rimfire 

cartridges when hunting. 

9. We limit nighttime use, 30 minutes 

after legal sunset to 30 minutes before 

legal sunrise, to fishing, frogging, and/ 

or raccoon/opossum hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer and turkey on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A10, A11, B6, B7, 

and B9 apply. 

2. Archery/crossbow hunting season 

for deer begins on the opening day of 

the State season and continues 

throughout the State season, except for 

refuge-wide season closure during the 

Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We provide 

annual season dates and bag limits in 

the refuge hunting brochure/permit. 

3. Muzzleloader hunting season for 

deer will begin in October and will 

continue for a period of up to 9 days 

with annual season dates and bag limits 

provided on the hunt brochure/permit. 

4. Modern gun deer hunting will 

begin in November and continue for a 

period of up to 11 days with annual 

season dates and bag limits provided in 

the refuge hunt brochure/permit. 

5. You may take feral hog with 

weapons legal during those hunts and 

according to applicable State Wildlife 

Management Area regulations. 

6. The spring gun hunt for turkey will 

begin on the opening day of the State 

season and continue throughout the 

State season on all refuge lands located 

south of Interstate 40. The remainder of 

the refuge is closed with the exception 

of those refuge lands included in the 

combined Black Swamp Wildlife 

Management Area/Cache River National 

Wildlife Refuge quota permit hunts 

administered by the Arkansas Game and 

Fish Commission. 

7. Hunters may only use shotguns 

with rifled slugs, muzzleloaders, or legal 

pistols for modern gun deer hunting on 

the Dixie Farm Unit Waterfowl 

Sanctuary, adjacent waterfowl hunt 

area, and Plunkett Farm Unit Waterfowl 

Sanctuary. 

8. We allow only portable stands. 

Hunters may erect stands 7 days prior 

to the refuge deer season and must 

remove them from the waterfowl 

sanctuaries prior to November 15, and 

from the rest of the refuge within 7 days 

of the closure of archery season (see 

§ 27.93 of this chapter). We prohibit 

leaving any tree stand, ground blind, or 

game camera on the refuge without the 

owner’s name and address clearly 

written in a conspicuous location. 

9. We prohibit the possession or use 

of buckshot for hunting on all refuge 

lands. 

10. We prohibit hunting from mowed 

and/or graveled road rights-of-way. 

11. We will close refuge lands located 

in State-designated Flood Prone Region 

B to all deer hunting when the White 

River gauge at Augusta reaches 31 feet 

(9.3 meters (m)), as reported by the 

National Weather Service, and reopen 

them when the same gauge reading falls 

below 30 feet (9.1 m) and the White 

River gauge at Georgetown falls to, or 

below, 19 feet (5.7 m). 

12. We will close refuge lands located 

in State-designated Flood Prone Region 

C to all deer hunting when the Cache 

River gauge at Patterson exceeds 10 feet 

(3 m), as reported by the National 

Weather Service, and reopen them when 

the same gauge reading falls below 8.5 

feet (2.6 m). 

13. We will close refuge lands located 

in Flood Prone Region D to all deer and 

turkey hunting when the White River 

gauge at Clarendon reaches 28 feet (8.4 

m), as reported by the National Weather 

Service, and reopen them when the 

same gauge reading falls to, or below, 27 

feet (8.1 m). 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and frogging on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A10 and B9 apply. 

2. We close waterfowl sanctuaries to 

all entrance and fishing/frogging from 

November 15 to February 28. We 

prohibit refuge-wide entry and fishing 

during the Quota Gun Deer Hunt. 

3. We prohibit the take or possession 

of turtles and/or mollusks (see § 27.21 of 

this chapter). 

4. We prohibit the mooring of 

houseboats to refuge property. 

Dale Bumpers White River National 

Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck and coot on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require all refuge users to sign 

and possess a refuge user brochure/ 

permit (signature required). 

2. We allow duck hunting from legal 

shooting hours until 12 p.m. (noon). 

3. We allow retriever dogs for 

migratory game bird hunting. 

4. You must remove blinds, blind 

material, and decoys (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter) from the refuge by 1 p.m. each 

day. 

5. Waterfowl hunters may enter and 

access the refuge no earlier than 4 a.m. 

6. We prohibit boating November 1 

through January 31 in the South Unit 

Waterfowl Hunt Areas, except from 4 

a.m. to 1 p.m. on designated waterfowl 

hunt days. 

7. We prohibit waterfowl hunting on 

Kansas Lake Area (indicated in refuge 

user brochure/permit). 

8. We allow duck hunting on specific 

scattered tracts of land, in accordance 

with the North Unit regulations. Consult 

the refuge office for further information. 

9. We only allow all-terrain vehicles 

(ATVs) for wildlife-dependent hunting 

and fishing activities. We restrict ATVs 

to designated yellow-marked trails 

throughout the refuge, unless marked 

otherwise. We prohibit the use of ATVs 

after December 15 each year in 

designated South Unit areas as shown in 

refuge user brochure/permit. We define 

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specifications not to exceed the 

following: A maximum dry weight of 

1,550 pounds (697.5 kilograms), tires 

having a centerline lug depth of 1 inch 

(2.5 centimeters) or less and a maximum 

tire pressure of 15 pounds per square 

inch (psi) as indicated on the tire by the 

manufacturer. We allow only those 

vehicles originally designed by their 

manufacturer to be ATVs; we prohibit 

mini trucks or other modified off-road 

vehicles. 

10. We prohibit the use of decoys that 

contain moving parts or electrical 

components, except that you may use 

manually operated ’jerk strings’ to 

simulate decoy movement. 

11. You may not utilize a guide, guide 

service, outfitter, club, organization, or 

any other person who provides 

equipment, services, or assistance on 

the refuge for compensation. 

12. We allow camping only in 

designated sites and areas identified in 

the refuge user brochure/permit (signed 

brochure), and we restrict camping to 

individuals involved in wildlifedependent activities. We limit camping 

on the refuge to no more than 14 days 

during any 30 consecutive-day period. 

Campers must occupy camps daily. We 

prohibit all disturbances, including use 

of generators, after 10 p.m. 

13. We allow refuge users to leave 

boats 16 feet (4.8 m) or less in length 

unattended overnight from March 1 to 

October 31, as long as the owner clearly 

and prominently displays his or her 

complete name and physical address. 

14. We prohibit all access in the 

Demonstration and Dry Lake Waterfowl 

Rest Areas as indicated in the refuge 

brochure/permit. 

15. We prohibit hovercraft, personal 

watercraft (e.g., jet skis, etc.), and 

airboats. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, beaver, 

coyote, raccoon, and opossum on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A1 applies. 

2. We allow hunting of rabbit and 

squirrel on the North Unit from 

September 1 until January 31. 

3. We allow dogs for hunting of rabbit 

and squirrel from December 1 through 

January 31 on the North Unit. 

4. You may hunt rabbit and squirrel 

on the South Unit from September 1 

until November 30. 

5. We prohibit dogs on the South Unit 

for the purpose of squirrel or rabbit 

hunting. 

6. We close all upland game hunts 

during quota Gun Deer Hunt and quota 

Muzzleloader Deer Hunt. 

7. We allow furbearer (as defined by 

State law) hunting in accordance with 

season dates posted in the refuge user 

brochure/permit (signed brochure). We 

allow furbearer hunting only with 

rimfire weapons and shotguns. 

8. We allow the use of dogs for 

hunting furbearers from legal sunset to 

legal sunrise. Hunters must tether or 

pen all dogs used for furbearer hunting 

from legal sunrise to legal sunset and 

any time they are not involved in actual 

hunting. 

9. We allow upland game hunting on 

specific scattered tracts of land, in 

accordance with Statewide regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow the 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A1 applies. 

2. Archery deer seasons on the North 

Unit are from the beginning of October 

until the end of January except during 

quota muzzleloader and quota gun deer 

hunts, when the archery season is 

closed. We provide annual season dates 

and bag limits in the refuge user 

brochure/permit (signed brochure). 

3. Archery deer seasons on the South 

Unit are from the beginning of October 

until the end of December except during 

quota muzzleloader and quota gun deer 

hunts, when the archery season is 

closed. We provide annual season dates 

and bag limits in the refuge user 

brochure/permit (signed brochure). 

4. Muzzleloader season for deer will 

begin in October and will continue for 

a period of up to 3 days of quota 

hunting and 4 days of non-quota 

hunting in the North Unit. We provide 

annual season dates and bag limits in 

the refuge user brochure/permit (signed 

brochure). 

5. The gun deer hunt will begin in 

November and will continue for a 

period of 3 days of quota hunting in the 

North and South Units, and 2 days of 

non-quota hunting in the North Unit. 

We provide annual season dates, bag 

limits, and areas in the refuge user 

brochure/permit. 

6. We restrict hunt participants for 

quota hunts to those drawn for a quota 

permit. The permits are nontransferable 

and nonrefundable. Hunt dates and 

application procedures will be available 

at the refuge office in April. 

7. We do not open for the bear season 

on all refuge-owned lands, including 

outlying and refuge lands in the Trusten 

Holder Wildlife Management Area. 

8. If you harvest deer or turkey on the 

refuge, you must immediately record the 

zone number (Zone 145 for the South 

Unit or Zone 146 for the North Unit) on 

your hunting license and later check 

deer and/or turkey through the State 

checking system. Outlying tracts use the 

same zone number as the surrounding 

State zone. 

9. We close the refuge to all non-quota 

hunting during refuge-wide quota 

muzzleloader and quota gun deer hunts. 

10. You must follow refuge guidance 

regarding flood-zone closures during the 

deer hunt. Guidance is found in the 

refuge brochure, which you must carry 

at all times. 

11. We prohibit the use of dogs other 

than those specified in the user permit. 

12. We prohibit all forms of organized 

deer drives. 

13. We prohibit firearm hunting from 

or across roads, ATV trails, levees, and 

maintained utility rights-of-way for deer 

only. 

14. You may only use portable deer 

stands (see § 27.93 of this chapter). You 

may erect stands up to 7 days before 

each hunt, but you must remove them 

within 7 days after each hunt. All 

unattended deer stands on the refuge 

must have the owner’s complete name 

and physical address clearly displayed. 

15. We close the Kansas Lake Area to 

all entry on December 1 and reopen it 

on March 1. 

16. We prohibit the possession of 

buckshot on the refuge. 

17. We prohibit the possession and/or 

use of toxic shot by hunters using 

shotguns (see § 32.2(k) of this chapter) 

when hunting. 

18. We provide information on feral 

hog hunting in the refuge brochure/ 

permit (signed brochure). 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing, 

frogging, and crawfishing for personal 

use on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A1 applies. 

2. We allow fishing year-round in 

LaGrue, Essex, Prairie, Scrubgrass and 

Brooks Bayous, Big Island Chute, Moon 

and Belknap Lakes next to Arkansas 

Highway 1, Indian Bay, the Arkansas 

Post Canal and adjacent drainage 

ditches; borrow ditches located adjacent 

to the west bank of that portion of the 

White River Levee north of the Graham 

Burke pumping station; and all refugeowned North Unit and scattered tract 

waters. We open all other South Unit 

refuge waters to sport fishing from 

March 1 through November 30 unless 

posted otherwise. 

3. We allow frogging on all refugeowned waters open for sport fishing as 

follows: We allow frogging on the South 

Unit from the beginning of the State 

season through November 30; we allow 

frogging on the North Unit for the entire 

State season. 


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4. We prohibit all commercial and 

recreational harvest of turtle on all 

property administered by Dale Bumpers 

White River National Wildlife Refuge. 

5. We prohibit take or possession of 

any freshwater mussel, and we do not 

open to mussel shelling. 

Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, and coot 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow hunting of duck, goose, 

and coot during the State waterfowl 

season except during scheduled quota 

refuge Gun Deer Hunts. 

2. Hunting of duck, goose, and coot 

ends at 12 p.m. (noon) each day. 

3. We allow only portable blinds. You 

must remove all duck hunting 

equipment (portable blinds, boats, guns, 

and decoys) (see § 27.93 of this chapter) 

from the hunt area by 1:30 p.m. each 

day. 

4. We close areas of the refuge posted 

with ‘‘Area Closed’’ signs and identify 

them on the refuge hunt brochure map 

as a waterfowl sanctuary. Waterfowl 

sanctuaries are closed to all public entry 

and public use during waterfowl 

hunting season. 

5. Hunters must possess and carry a 

signed Refuge Public Use Regulations 

Brochure/Access Permit (signed 

brochure) while hunting. 

6. We prohibit possession and/or use 

of herbicides (see § 27.51 of this 

chapter). 

7. All youth hunters age 15 and 

younger must remain within sight and 

normal voice contact of an adult age 21 

or older, possessing a valid hunting 

license. One adult may supervise no 

more than two youth hunters. 

8. We allow only all-terrain vehicles/ 

utility-type vehicles (ATVs/UTVs) for 

hunting and fishing activities. We 

restrict ATVs/UTVs to designated times 

and designated trails (see § 27.31 of this 

chapter) marked with signs and paint. 

We identify these trails and the dates 

they are open for use in the refuge hunt 

brochure. We limit ATVs/UTVs to those 

having an engine displacement size not 

exceeding 700cc. We limit ATV/UTV 

tires to those having a centerline lug 

depth not exceeding 1 inch (2.5 

centimeters). You may use horses on 

roads and ATV/UTV trails (when open 

to motor vehicle and ATV/UTV traffic, 

respectively) as a mode of transportation 

for hunting and fishing activities on the 

refuge. 

9. We prohibit hunting within 150 

feet (45 meters (m)) of roads and trails 

open to motor vehicle use (including 

ATV/UTV trails). 

10. We allow camping only at 

designated primitive campground sites 

identified in the refuge hunt brochure, 

and we restrict camping to individuals 

involved in wildlife-dependent refuge 

activities. Campers may stay no more 

than 14 days during any 30 consecutiveday period in any campground and 

must occupy camps daily. We prohibit 

all disturbances, including use of 

generators, after 10 p.m. You must 

unload all hunting weapons (see 

§ 27.42(b) of this chapter) within 100 

yards (90 m) of a campground. 

11. You may take beaver, nutria, and 

coyote during any daytime refuge hunt 

with weapons and ammunition allowed 

for that hunt. There is no bag limit. 

12. We allow the use of retriever dogs. 

13. We prohibit the use or possession 

of any electronic call or other electronic 

device used for producing or projecting 

vocal sounds of any wildlife species. 

14. We prohibit leaving any boat on 

the refuge. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of quail, squirrel, rabbit, and 

furbearers (as defined by State law) on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A4 through A10, and 

A12 apply. 

2. We allow hunting for quail, 

squirrel, rabbit, and furbearers (as 

defined by State law) on the refuge 

during State seasons through January 

31. We list specific hunting season dates 

annually in the refuge hunt brochure. 

We close upland game hunting during 

refuge quota deer hunts. We annually 

publish dates for these quota deer hunts 

in the refuge hunt brochure. 

3. We do not open for spring squirrel 

hunting season, summer/early fall 

raccoon hunting season, or spring 

bobcat hunting season. 

4. We prohibit possession of lead 

ammunition except that you may 

possess rimfire rifle lead ammunition no 

larger than .22 caliber for upland game 

hunting. We prohibit possession of shot 

larger than that legal for waterfowl 

hunting. During the deer and turkey 

hunts, hunters may possess lead 

ammunition legal for taking deer and 

turkey. We prohibit buckshot for gun 

deer hunting. 

5. You may use dogs for squirrel and 

rabbit hunting from December 1 through 

January 31. You may also use dogs for 

quail hunting and for raccoon/opossum 

hunting during open season on the 

refuge for these species. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, feral hog, 

and turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A5 through A10 apply. 

2. We allow archery deer hunting on 

the refuge from the opening of the State 

season through January 31. 

3. We close archery deer hunting 

during the quota gun deer hunts. 

4. The refuge will conduct no more 

than two muzzleloader deer hunts and 

no more than four quota modern gun 

deer hunts. 

5. We allow muzzleloader deer 

hunting during the October State 

Muzzleloader season for this deer 

management zone. The refuge will 

conduct one 4-day quota modern gun 

hunt for deer, typically in November. 

The refuge also may conduct one 

mobility-impaired hunt for deer 

typically in early November. 

6. Total deer harvested refuge-wide is 

two deer (two does or one buck and one 

doe as defined by State law) regardless 

of method. See refuge brochure for 

specific bag limit information. 

7. Hunters must check all harvested 

deer during quota hunts at refuge deer 

check stations on the same day of the 

kill. We identify the check station 

locations in the refuge hunt brochure. 

Carcasses of deer taken must remain 

intact (except you may field dress) until 

checked. 

8. You may only use portable deer 

stands erected no earlier than the 

opening day of Archery Season and you 

must remove them no later than January 

31 each year (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). 

9. We prohibit the use of deer 

decoy(s). 

10. We prohibit horses and mules 

during refuge quota deer hunts. 

11. We open spring archery turkey 

hunting during the State spring turkey 

season. We do not open for fall archery 

turkey season. 

12. We close spring archery turkey 

hunting during scheduled turkey quota 

gun hunts. 

13. The refuge will conduct no more 

than three quota permit spring turkey 

gun hunts and no more than two 3-day 

quota spring turkey hunts (typically in 

April). Specific hunt dates and 

application procedures will be available 

at the refuge office in January. We 

restrict hunt participants to those 

selected for a quota permit, except that 

one nonhunting adult age 21 or older 

possessing a valid hunting license must 

accompany the youth hunter age 15 and 

younger. 

14. An adult age 21 or older 

possessing a valid hunting license must 

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and younger. One adult may supervise 

no more than one youth hunter. 

15. We prohibit leaving any tree 

stand, ground blind, or game camera on 

the refuge without the owner’s name 

and address clearly written in a 

conspicuous location. Game cameras 

must be removed from the refuge daily 

and are prohibited from being left 

overnight. 

16. We restrict hunt participants for 

quota hunts to those drawn for a quota 

permit (Quota Deer Hunt Application, 

FWS Form 3–2354). These permits are 

nontransferable and permit fees are 

nonrefundable. If conditions prevent the 

hunts from taking place, there will be no 

refunds or permits carried over from 

year to year. Hunt dates and application 

procedures will be available at the 

refuge office in July for deer and January 

for turkey. 

17. The incidental taking of feral hogs 

will be in accordance with Arkansas 

Game and Fish Commission regulations 

concerning the taking of feral hogs on 

State WMAs. If allowed on State WMAs, 

feral hogs may be taken incidental to 

daytime refuge hunts (without the use of 

dogs) with legal hunting equipment and 

ammunition allowed for that hunt. No 

bag limit. Live hogs may not be 

transported or possessed. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing, 

frogging, and crawfishing for personal 

use on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A5, A6, A7, A10, and 

A14 apply. 

2. We prohibit fishing in the 

waterfowl sanctuary area when the 

sanctuary is closed, with the exception 

of the main channel of the Ouachita and 

Saline Rivers and the borrow pits along 

Highway 82. We post the waterfowl 

sanctuary area with ‘‘Area Closed’’ signs 

and identify those areas in refuge hunt 

brochures. 

3. We allow fishing only in areas 

accessible from the Ouachita and Saline 

Rivers and Eagle, Jones, and Pereogeethe 

Lakes during the refuge quota gun 

hunts. 

4. You must reset trotlines when 

receding water levels expose them. 

Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, 

opossum, beaver, armadillo, coyote, and 

bobcat on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require refuge hunting permits 

(found on the front cover of the annual 

hunt brochure/permit—signature 

required). The permits are 

nontransferable, and anyone on refuge 

land in possession of hunting 

equipment must sign and carry the 

permits at all times. Your hunt permit 

will also act as your entrance pass to the 

refuge. 

2. During the refuge archery season, 

you may take only squirrel, rabbit, 

raccoon, opossum, beaver, armadillo, 

coyote, or bobcat. 

3. We allow gun hunting of raccoon 

and opossum with dogs every Thursday, 

Friday, and Saturday until legal sunrise 

during the month of February. We 

prohibit field trials and organized 

training events (see § 26.21(b) of this 

chapter). 

4. We only allow all-terrain vehicles 

(ATVs) for hunters and anglers with 

disabilities. We require a refuge ATV 

permit (Special Use Permit; FWS Form 

3–1383–G) issued by the refuge 

manager. 

5. We prohibit hunting from a vehicle. 

6. You must enter and exit the refuge 

from designated roads and parking 

areas. We prohibit accessing refuge 

waters and land from the Arkansas 

River. We prohibit boating over the dam 

at the Old River Channel from either 

direction. 

7. We prohibit hunting within 100 

feet (30 meters) of roads open to motor 

vehicle use and nature trails. 

8. We allow the use of nonmotorized 

boats during the refuge fishing/boating 

season (March 1 to October 31), but we 

prohibit hunters leaving boats on the 

refuge overnight (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer and turkey on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions B1 and B4 through B8 

apply. 

2. We allow archery/crossbow 

hunting for white-tailed deer and 

turkey. We provide annual season dates 

in the public use regulations brochure/ 

permit (signature required). 

3. The refuge will conduct one youthonly (between ages 6 and 15 at the 

beginning of the gun deer season in 

Zone 7) quota gun deer hunt. Specific 

hunt dates and application procedures 

will be available at the refuge office in 

July. We restrict hunt participants to 

those selected for a quota permit, except 

that one nonhunting adult must 

accompany the youth hunter during the 

youth hunt. 

4. We open spring archery turkey 

hunting during the State turkey season. 

5. We close the refuge to all entry and 

public use during scheduled youth 

quota gun hunts, except for those 

allowed to participate in the youth 

quota gun hunt. 

6. The refuge will conduct two youthonly (age 6 to 15 at the beginning of the 

spring turkey season) quota spring gun 

turkey hunts, each 2 days in length. 

Specific hunt dates and application 

procedures will be available at the 

refuge office in January. We restrict hunt 

participants to those selected for a quota 

permit (name, address, phone number 

required), except that one nonhunting 

adult age 21 or older must accompany 

the youth hunter during the youth hunt. 

7. We allow only portable deer stands. 

You may erect stands 7 days before the 

start of the season and must remove the 

stands from the refuge within 7 days 

after the season ends (see §§ 27.93 and 

27.94 of this chapter). 

8. You must permanently affix the 

owner’s name, address, and phone 

number to all tree stands, ground blinds, 

or game cameras on the refuge. 

9. We prohibit hunting from paved, 

graveled, and mowed roads and mowed 

trails (see § 27.31 of this chapter). 

10. We prohibit all forms of organized 

game drives. 

11. You must check all game at the 

refuge check station. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing and frogging in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions B4, B6, and C5 apply. 

2. Waters of the refuge are only open 

for fishing March 1 through October 31 

from legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

3. We prohibit anglers from leaving 

their boats unattended overnight on any 

portion of the refuge (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). 

4. We prohibit the take and 

possession of turtles and/or mollusks 

(see § 27.21 of this chapter). 

5. We prohibit airboats, hovercraft, 

and personal watercraft (Jet Skis, etc.) 

(see § 27.31 of this chapter). 

Overflow National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, and coot 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a 

Refuge Public Use Regulations 

Brochure/Access Permit (signed 

brochure) while hunting. 

2. Hunting of duck, goose, and coot 

ends at 12 p.m. (noon) each day. 

3. We allow only portable blinds. 

Hunters must remove portable blinds, 

boats, and decoys from the hunt area by 

1:30 p.m. each day (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). 

4. You may only possess shotshells in 

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waterfowl hunting season; hunters may 

not discharge more than 25 shells per 

day. 

5. Hunters under age 16 do not need 

to have a hunter education card if they 

are under the direct supervision (within 

arm’s reach) of a holder of a valid 

hunting license who is at least age 21. 

6. All youth hunters age 15 and 

younger must remain within sight and 

normal voice contact of an adult age 21 

or older, possessing a valid hunting 

license. One adult may supervise no 

more than two youth hunters. 

7. We allow only all-terrain vehicles/ 

utility-type vehicles (ATVs/UTVs) for 

hunting activities. We restrict ATVs/ 

UTVs to designated times and 

designated trails (see § 27.31 of this 

chapter) marked with signs and paint. 

We identify those trails and the dates 

that they are open for use in the refuge 

hunt brochure. We limit ATVs/UTVs to 

those having an engine displacement 

size not exceeding 700cc. We limit 

ATV/UTV tires to those having a 

centerline lug depth not exceeding 1 

inch (2.5 centimeters). You may use 

horses on roads and ATV/UTV trails 

(when open to motor vehicle and ATV/ 

UTV traffic respectively) as a mode of 

transportation for hunting activities on 

the refuge. 

8. We prohibit hunting within 150 

feet (45 meters) of roads and trails open 

to motor vehicle use (including ATV/ 

UTV trails). 

9. You may take beaver, nutria, and 

coyote during any daytime refuge hunt 

with weapons and ammunition legal for 

that hunt. There is no bag limit. We 

prohibit transportation or possession of 

live hog. 

10. All boats are prohibited on the 

refuge between the hours of 1:30 p.m. 

and 4 a.m. during waterfowl season. 

11. All boat motors (including surface 

drive motors, mud motors, etc.) larger 

than 25 horsepower (HP) are prohibited. 

12. Hunters may not enter the refuge 

until 4 a.m., with the exception of 

designated parking areas. Hunting ends 

at 12 p.m. (noon) each day. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of quail, squirrel, rabbit, and 

furbearers (as defined by State law) on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A4 through A9, and 

A11 apply. 

2. We allow hunting during State 

seasons (see State regulations for the 

appropriate zone) for quail, squirrel, 

rabbit, and furbearers (as defined by 

State law) through January 31. We list 

specific hunting season dates annually 

in the refuge hunt brochure. 

3. We do not open for the spring 

squirrel hunting season, summer/fall 

raccoon hunting season, or the spring 

bobcat hunting season. 

4. When upland game hunting, we 

prohibit possession of lead ammunition 

except that you may possess rimfire rifle 

lead ammunition no larger than .22 

caliber. We prohibit possession of shot 

larger than that legal for waterfowl 

hunting. 

5. You may use dogs for squirrel and 

rabbit hunting from December 1 through 

January 31. You may also use dogs for 

quail hunting and for raccoon/opossum 

hunting during open season on the 

refuge for these species. 

6. We allow nighttime raccoon and 

opossum hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, feral hog, 

and turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A5 through A9, and 

A11 apply. 

2. We allow muzzleloader deer 

hunting during the first State 

muzzleloader season for this zone (see 

State regulations for appropriate zone). 

3. We prohibit buckshot for gun deer 

hunting. 

4. Bag limit for the muzzleloader deer 

hunt is two deer, with no more than one 

buck. 

5. You may only use portable deer 

stands erected no earlier than the 

opening day of Archery Season and you 

must remove them no later than January 

31 each year (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). Limit is one deer stand, blind, 

etc., per person. 

6. We prohibit the use of deer 

decoy(s). 

7. The refuge will conduct no more 

than one quota permit youth spring 

turkey gun hunt. Specific hunt dates 

and application procedures will be 

available at the refuge office in January. 

We restrict hunt participants on these 

hunts to those selected for a quota 

permit, except that one nonhunting 

adult age 21 or older and possessing a 

valid hunting license must accompany a 

youth hunter age 15 or younger. 

8. An adult age 21 or older possessing 

a valid hunting license must accompany 

and be within sight or normal voice 

contact of hunters age 15 and younger. 

One adult may supervise no more than 

one youth hunter. 

9. The incidental taking of feral hogs 

will be in accordance with Arkansas 

Game and Fish Commission regulations 

concerning the taking of feral hogs on 

State WMAs. If allowed on State WMAs, 

feral hogs may be taken incidental to 

daytime refuge hunts (without the use of 

dogs) with legal hunting equipment and 

ammunition allowed for that hunt. No 

bag limit. Live hogs may not be 

transported or possessed. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

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Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of snow geese on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require refuge hunting permits. 

The permits (found on the front cover of 

the annual hunt brochure/permit— 

signature required) are nontransferable 

and anyone on refuge land in possession 

of hunting equipment must sign and 

carry them at all times. 

2. We provide annual season dates on 

the hunt brochure/permit. 

3. Hunters may enter the refuge at 4 

a.m. and must leave the refuge by legal 

sunset. 

4. Roundpond and Pigmon Units are 

closed to all migratory bird hunting. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, 

nutria, beaver, coyote, feral hog, and 

opossum in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 through A4 apply. 

2. You may use only shotguns with 

approved nontoxic shot (see § 32.2(k)) 

and rifles chambered for rimfire 

cartridges when hunting. 

3. We provide annual season dates for 

squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, and opossum 

hunting on the hunt brochure/permit. 

We allow dogs. 

4. You may take nutria, beaver, and 

coyote during any refuge hunt with 

those weapons legal during those hunts, 

subject to applicable State seasons and 

regulations. 

5. You may take feral hog only during 

the refuge Quota Gun Deer Hunt and 

according to State WMA regulations. 

6. We limit nighttime hunting to 

raccoon/opossum hunting. 

7. We close all other hunts during the 

Quota Gun Deer Hunt. We allow only 

Quota Gun Deer Hunt permit (fee/ 

signature required) holders to enter the 

refuge during this hunt and only for 

deer hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of big game on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 through A4, and B4 

through B7 apply. 

2. We prohibit hunting from mowed 

and/or graveled road rights-of-way. 

3. We specify annual season dates, 

bag limits, and hunting methods on the 

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4. We allow only portable deer stands. 

You may erect stands 7 days prior to the 

refuge deer season and must remove 

them from the waterfowl sanctuaries by 

December 1. You must remove all 

stands on the remainder of the refuge 

within 7 days of the closure of archery 

season (see § 27.93 of this chapter). 

5. We prohibit the possession or use 

of buckshot for hunting on all refuge 

lands. 

6. We prohibit leaving any tree stand, 

ground blind, or game camera on the 

refuge without the owner’s name, 

address, and phone number clearly 

written in a conspicuous location. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing from March 1 

through October 31 from 1⁄2 hour before 

legal sunrise to 1⁄2 hour after legal 

sunset. 

2. We prohibit the possession or use 

of live carp, shad, buffalo, or goldfish 

for bait. 

3. We prohibit the possession or use 

of yo-yos, jugs, or other floating 

containers; drops or limb lines; 

trotlines; and commercial fishing tackle. 

4. We allow bank fishing. 

5. We prohibit the take or possession 

of frogs, mollusks, and/or turtles (see 

§ 27.21 of this chapter). 

6. Anglers may launch boats only in 

designated areas. 

7. Anglers must remove all boats daily 

from the refuge (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). We prohibit airboats, personal 

watercraft, and hovercraft. 

■ 4. Amend § 32.24 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Kern National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising the entry Lower Klamath 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Merced National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Sacramento 

River National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ e. Revising the entry San Luis 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ f. Revising the entry San Pablo Bay 

National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ g. Revising the entry Tule Lake 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.24 California. 

* * * * * 

Kern National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of geese, ducks, coots, 

and moorhens on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Hunters assigned to the spaced 

blind unit must remain within 100 feet 

(30.5 meters) of the numbered steel post 

(blind site) except when pursuing 

cripples, placing decoys, or traveling to 

and from the parking area. 

2. Hunters may not possess more than 

25 shells while in the field. 

3. We allow only nonmotorized boats. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: We allow pheasant hunting 

only in the free roam unit. 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Lower Klamath National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of geese, ducks, coots, 

moorhens, and snipe on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State laws and regulations and subject 

to the following conditions: 

1. In the controlled waterfowl hunting 

area, we require a valid Refuge 

Recreation Pass for all hunters age 16 or 

older. An adult with a valid Recreation 

Pass must accompany hunters age 17 

and younger who are hunting in the 

controlled area. 

2. We require advance reservations for 

the first 2 days of the hunting season. 

Reservations are obtained through the 

Waterfowl Lottery each year. 

3. Entry hours begin at 4:30 a.m. 

unless otherwise posted. 

4. Shooting hours end at 1 p.m. on all 

California portions of the refuge with 

the following exceptions: 

i. The refuge manager may designate 

up to 6 afternoon special youth, ladies, 

veteran, or disabled hunter waterfowl 

hunts per season. 

ii. The refuge manager may designate 

up to 3 days per week of afternoon 

waterfowl hunting for the general public 

after December 1. 

5. You may not set decoys in 

retrieving zones. 

6. We prohibit air-thrust and inboard 

water-thrust boats. 

7. You may use only nonmotorized 

boats and boats with electric motors on 

designated motorless units from the 

start of the hunting season through 

November 30. You may use motorized 

boats on designated motorless units 

from December 1 through the end of 

hunting season. 

8. Pit style hunting blinds located in 

the Stearns units and unit 9D are firstcome, first-served. We require you to 

hunt within a 200-foot (61-meter) radius 

of the blind. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

laws and regulations and subject to the 

following condition: In the controlled 

pheasant hunting area, we require a 

valid Refuge Recreation Pass for all 

hunters age 16 or older. An adult with 

a valid Recreation Pass must accompany 

hunters age 17 or younger who are 

hunting in the controlled area. 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Merced National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, coot, and 

moorhen on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You may possess only 25 or fewer 

shotshells per day after leaving the 

parking lot. 

2. Each hunter must remain inside his 

or her assigned blind, except for placing 

decoys, retrieving downed birds, and 

traveling to and from the parking area. 

We prohibit shooting from outside the 

blind. 

3. We restrict hunters in the spaced 

zone area of the Lonetree Unit to their 

assigned zone except when they are 

traveling to and from the parking area, 

retrieving downed birds, or shooting to 

retrieve crippled birds. 

4. Dogs must remain under the 

immediate control of their owners at all 

times (see § 26.21(b) of this chapter). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

Sacramento River National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, coot, 

moorhen, dove, and snipe on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Access to the hunt area on all units 

open to public hunting is by boat only, 

except on designated units, which are 

accessible by foot traffic or boat. We 

prohibit bicycles or other conveyances. 

Mobility-impaired hunters should 

consult with the refuge manager for 

allowed conveyances. We prohibit 

waterfowl hunting on the Mooney and 

Codora Units. 

2. On the Codora Unit, we prohibit 

hunting except for junior hunters on 

weekends only. Junior hunters must 

possess a valid junior hunting license 

and be accompanied by a nonhunting 

adult. 

3. We allow only shotgun hunting. 

4. We prohibit hunting within 50 feet 

(15 meters (m)) of any landward 

boundary adjacent to private property. 

5. We prohibit hunting within 150 

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house, residence, or other building or 

any barn or other outbuilding used in 

connection therewith. 

6. We prohibit fires on the refuge, 

except we allow portable gas stoves on 

gravel bars (see § 27.95(a) of this 

chapter). 

7. We open the refuge for day-use 

access from 2 hours before legal sunrise 

until 11⁄2 hours after legal sunset. We 

allow access during other hours on 

gravel bars only. 

8. We require dogs to be kept on a 

leash, except for hunting dogs engaged 

in authorized hunting activities, and 

under the immediate control of a 

licensed hunter (see § 26.21(b) of this 

chapter). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, turkey, and quail 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow only shotgun and archery 

hunting. 

2. Conditions A1, A2, and A4 through 

A8 apply. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of black-tailed deer and feral 

hogs on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A2, A4 through A8, 

and B1 apply. 

2. Feral hogs may be hunted 

September 1 through March 15. 

3. We prohibit the use of dogs while 

hunting black-tailed deer and feral hogs. 

4. We allow the use of only shotguns 

not capable of holding more than three 

rounds and firing single non-lead 

shotgun slugs, and archery equipment. 

We prohibit the use or possession of 

rifles and pistols on the refuge for 

hunting. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A6 through A8 apply. 

2. On Packer Lake and Drumheller 

North, due to primitive access, we only 

allow boats up to 14 feet (4.2 m) and 

canoes. Electric motors only. 

* * * * * 

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, coot, 

moorhen, and snipe on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You may only hunt snipe within 

the free-roaming portion of the San Luis 

Unit waterfowl hunting area. 

2. You may only possess shotshells in 

quantities of 25 or fewer after leaving 

your assigned parking lot or boat 

launch. 

3. We prohibit dropping of passengers 

or equipment, and stopping between 

designated parking areas. You must 

return your permits to the check stations 

immediately upon completion of your 

hunt and prior to using any tour routes 

or leaving the refuge vicinity. 

4. We restrict hunters in the spaced 

blind area to their assigned blind except 

when they are placing decoys, traveling 

to and from the parking area, retrieving 

downed birds, or pursuing cripples. 

5. We restrict hunters in the spaced 

zone area of the East Bear Creek Unit to 

their assigned zone except when they 

are traveling to and from the parking 

area, retrieving downed birds, or 

pursuing crippled birds. 

6. Access to the Freitas Unit free-roam 

hunting area is by boat only with a 

maximum of 5 miles per hour (mph). 

Prohibited boats include air-thrust and/ 

or inboard water-thrust types. 

7. We prohibit the use of motorized 

boats in the free-roam units with the 

exception of the Freitas Unit. 

8. We do not allow vehicle trailers of 

any type or size to be in the refuge hunt 

areas at any time or to be left 

unattended at any location on the 

refuge. 

9. Dogs must remain under the 

immediate control of their owners at all 

times (see § 26.21(b) of this chapter). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasants on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. You may only possess shotshells in 

quantities of 25 or fewer while in the 

field. 

2. Dogs must remain under the 

immediate control of their owners at all 

times (see § 26.21(b) of this chapter). 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We only allow fishing during 

normal refuge visitation hours in 

designated areas as posted. 

2. We only allow the use of pole and 

line or rod and reel to take fish, and 

anglers must attend their equipment at 

all times. 

San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, and coot 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We only allow hunting in the open 

waters of San Pablo Bay and navigable 

sloughs, the Cullinan Ranch Unit, and 

the Sears Point Dickson Ranch Unit. 

2. You may only hunt from a boat. We 

prohibit walk-in hunting on the refuge. 

3. You may possess shotshells only in 

quantities of 25 or fewer while in the 

field. 

4. We only allow dogs engaged in 

hunting activities on the refuge during 

waterfowl season. We prohibit other 

domesticated animals or pets. 

5. We allow foot access through the 

refuge to the State’s Tolay Creek Unit 

(Midshipman Slough) for waterfowl 

hunting. 

6. We allow waterfowl hunting from 

legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

7. Hunters may enter closed areas of 

the refuge (tidal marshes) only to 

retrieve downed birds, but all weapons 

must be left in the designated hunting 

areas. 

8. We prohibit launching of boats and 

access to the Bay or sloughs from refuge 

property except from designated boat 

launch sites (Cullinan Ranch Unit and 

Dickson Ranch Unit). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant only in areas of the 

Tolay Creek Unit designated by posted 

signs in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You may only hunt on 

Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. 

2. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shotshells (see § 32.2(k)) in 

quantities of 25 or fewer while in the 

field. 

3. You may only access the Tolay 

Creek Unit by foot or bicycle. 

4. We only allow dogs engaged in 

hunting activities on the refuge during 

pheasant season. We prohibit other 

domesticated animals or pets. 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

the refuge in accordance with State and 

Federal regulations, and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. The refuge is only open to fishing 

from legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

2. We only allow fishing in the open 

waters of San Pablo Bay and navigable 

sloughs, the Cullinan Ranch Unit, and 

the Dickson Ranch Unit. 

3. We prohibit walking through or 

over marsh vegetation. 

4. We prohibit launching of boats and 

access to the Bay or sloughs from refuge 

property except from designated boat 

launch sites. We allow only 

nonmotorized crafts at the Cullinan 

Ranch Unit and Dickson Ranch Unit 

launch sites. 

5. We only allow fishing from the 

shore at designated areas along the west 

side of Cullinan Ranch Unit in addition 

to the fishing and wildlife observation 

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6. We allow fishing only with a pole 

and line or rod and reel. We prohibit 

bow fishing and gigging. 

* * * * * 

Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of geese, ducks, coots, 

moorhens, and snipe on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State laws and regulations, and subject 

to the following conditions: 

1. In the controlled waterfowl hunting 

area, we require a valid Refuge 

Recreation Pass for all hunters age 16 or 

older. An adult with a valid Recreation 

Pass must accompany hunters age 17 or 

younger who are hunting in the 

controlled area. 

2. We require advance reservations for 

the first 2 days of the hunting season. 

You may obtain a reservation through 

the Waterfowl Lottery each year. 

3. Entry hours begin at 4:30 a.m. 

unless otherwise posted. 

4. Shooting hours end at 1 p.m. on all 

portions of the refuge with the following 

exceptions: 

i. The refuge manager may designate 

up to 6 afternoon special youth, ladies, 

veteran, or disabled hunter waterfowl 

hunts per season. 

ii. The refuge manager may designate 

up to 3 days per week of afternoon 

waterfowl hunting for the general public 

after December 1. 

5. You select blind sites by lottery at 

the beginning of each hunt day. You 

may shoot only from within your 

assigned blind site. 

6. We prohibit the setting of decoys in 

retrieving zones. 

7. We prohibit air-thrust and inboard 

water-thrust boats. 

8. We prohibit the use of all-terrain 

amphibious or utility-type vehicles 

(UTVs) in wetland units. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

laws and regulations, and subject to the 

following condition: In the controlled 

pheasant hunting area, we require a 

valid Refuge Recreation Pass for all 

hunters age 16 or older. An adult with 

a valid Recreation Pass must accompany 

hunters age 17 or younger who are 

hunting in the controlled area. 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

■ 5. Amend § 32.25 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Alamosa National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.2 and A.4; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraph A.3 as 

A.2; and 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs B and C; 

■ b. Revising the entry Arapaho 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Baca National 

Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ d. Revising the entry Monte Vista 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.25 Colorado. 

* * * * * 

Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of cottontail rabbit, and blacktailed and whitetailed jackrabbit, on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Condition A2 applies. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of elk on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

* * * * * 

Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, coot, merganser, 

Canada goose, snipe, Virginia and Sora 

rail, and mourning dove on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State and Federal regulations, and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. All migratory bird hunting closes 

annually on December 31. 

2. We allow access to the refuge one 

hour prior to legal shooting time. 

3. We allow use of only portable 

stands and blinds that the hunter must 

remove following each day’s hunt (see 

§ 27.93 of this chapter). 

4. We prohibit hunting 200 feet (60 

meters) from any public use road, 

designated parking area, or designated 

public use facility located within the 

hunt area. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of jackrabbit, cottontail rabbit, 

and sage grouse on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. All upland game hunting closes 

annually on December 31. 

2. Condition A2 applies. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of antelope and elk on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A2 and A3 apply. 

2. Elk hunters: 

i. Must possess a refuge-specific 

permit to hunt elk; and 

ii. Must attend a scheduled pre-hunt 

information meeting prior to hunting. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge on the 

Illinois River in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We prohibit fishing between June 1 

and July 31 each year. 

2. We allow fishing only from legal 

sunrise to legal sunset. 

3. We prohibit ice fishing on the 

refuge. 

4. Fishing is closed in Unit C when 

the refuge is open to big game rifle 

hunting. 

5. We prohibit lead sinkers and live 

bait for fishing. 

Baca National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of Eurasian collareddoves and mourning doves only in 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State and Federal 

regulations, and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow Eurasian collared-dove 

hunting only during the mourning dove 

season. 

2. The only acceptable methods of 

take are shotguns, hand-held bows, and 

hawking/falconry. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of cottontail rabbit, and blacktailed and white-tailed jackrabbit, on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Shotguns, rifles firing rimfire cartridges 

less than .23 caliber, hand-held bows, 

pellet guns, slingshots, and hawking/ 

falconry are the only acceptable 

methods of take. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of elk on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: You must possess a valid 

State license and a refuge-specific 

permit from the State, or a valid State 

license issued specifically for the refuge, 

to hunt elk. State license selection will 

be made via the Colorado Parks and 

Wildlife hunt selection process. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of geese, ducks, coots, 

snipe, Eurasian collared-doves, and 

mourning doves on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State and 

Federal regulations, and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow Eurasian collared-dove 

hunting only during the mourning dove 

season. 

2. The only acceptable methods of 

take are shotguns, hand-held bows, and 

hawking/falconry. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of cottontail rabbit, and blacktailed and white-tailed jackrabbit, on 

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accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Condition A2 applies. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of elk on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: You must possess a valid 

State license and a refuge-specific 

permit from the State, or a valid State 

license issued specifically for the refuge, 

to hunt elk. State license selection will 

be made via the Colorado Parks and 

Wildlife hunt selection process. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

§ 32.26 [Amended] 

■ 6. Amend § 32.26, the entry Stewart B. 

McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, by: 

■ a. Removing paragraphs A.2, A.3, A.5, 

A.6, A.7, A.8, A.9, A.12, A.13, and A.14; 

and 

■ b. Redesignating paragraphs A.4, 

A.10, and A.11 as paragraphs A.2, A.3, 

and A.4, respectively. 

■ 7. Amend § 32.27 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Bombay Hook 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A and B, and 

the introductory text of paragraph C; 

and 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs C.3 and C.4; 

and 

■ b. Revising the entry Prime Hook 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.27 Delaware. 

* * * * * 

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

require a permit for waterfowl hunting 

except on the South Upland Hunting 

Area. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of grey squirrel, cottontail 

rabbit, ring-necked pheasant, bobwhite 

quail, raccoon, opossum, red fox, and 

mourning dove on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of turkey and deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

* * * * * 

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow the hunting of waterfowl, coot, 

mourning dove, snipe, and woodcock 

on designated areas of the refuge during 

designated seasons in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Refuge permits are required for 

waterfowl hunting except in ‘‘walk-in’’ 

areas as defined in the refuge brochure. 

You must obtain and possess a refuge 

permit from the refuge office or website. 

2. You must complete and return a 

Migratory Bird Hunt Report (FWS Form 

3–2361), available at the refuge 

administration office or on the refuge’s 

website, within 15 days of the close of 

the season. 

3. You may access the Lottery 

Waterfowl hunt area by boat. The 

maximum horsepower allowed for boat 

motors is 30 horsepower (HP). You must 

abide by the slow, no-wake zones on 

designated portions of refuge waterways 

as depicted in maps or within the 

brochure. 

4. Disabled Waterfowl Draw Area. 

i. All disabled hunters must possess 

and carry a State of Delaware Certified 

Hunter with Disabilities Card while 

hunting in disabled areas. We will not 

accept photocopies or electronic copies 

of these forms. 

ii. Disabled hunters may have a 

nonhunting assistant who is age 18 or 

older. The assistant must remain within 

sight and normal voice contact, must 

not be engaged in hunting, and must 

possess a valid refuge hunt brochure 

signed in ink and a valid governmentissued photo identification. Any 

assistant engaged in hunting must 

possess and carry all pertinent State and 

Federal licenses and stamps. 

iii. We do not allow assistants to enter 

a designated disabled hunting area 

unless they are accompanied by a 

certified disabled hunter. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of rabbit, quail, pheasant, and 

red fox on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We do not allow squirrel hunting 

due to the similarity of gray squirrels 

and the State endangered Delmarva fox 

squirrel. 

2. You must obtain and possess a 

refuge permit from the refuge office or 

website. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

2. Hunting on the headquarters deer 

hunt area will be by lottery. You must 

obtain and possess a refuge permit from 

the refuge office or website. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and crabbing on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Turkle and Fleetwood ponds are 

restricted to electric trolling motors 

only. 

2. All crabbing and fishing gear must 

be attended at all times. No gear may be 

left overnight. 

■ 8. Amend § 32.28 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Arthur R. 

Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife 

Refuge; 

■ b. Under the entry J. N. ‘‘Ding’’ 

Darling National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph D and paragraph D.1; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs D.2, D.3, D.4, 

D.5, D.14, D.17, and D.21; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs D.6 

through D.10, D.12, D.13, D.15, D.16, 

and D.18 through D.20 as paragraphs 

D.2 through D.6, D.7, D.8, D.9, D.10, and 

D.12 through D.14, respectively; and 

■ iv. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraphs D.6 and D.10, paragraph 

D.11, and newly redesignated paragraph 

D.13; and 

■ c. Under the entry Lake Woodruff 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph C, and paragraphs C.1 and 

C.2; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.4, C.7, 

C.10, C.16, and C.17; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs C.5, C.8, 

C.9, C.11 through C.15, and C.18 as 

paragraphs C.3, C.4, C.5, C.7 through 

C.11, and C.12, respectively; 

■ iv. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph C.5, paragraph C.6, and 

newly redesignated paragraphs C.8 and 

C.12; 

■ v. Removing paragraph D.1; and 

■ vi. Redesignating paragraphs D.2 

through D.5 as paragraphs D.1 through 

D.4, respectively. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.28 Florida. 

* * * * * 

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee 

National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck and coot on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State and Federal 

regulations, and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge waterfowl hunt permit 

(signed brochure) while hunting. These 

brochures are available at the refuge 

visitor center and on the refuge’s 

website (http://www.fws.gov/ 

loxahatchee). 

2. We allow hunting in the interior of 

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26.27.130 and north of mile markers 12 

and 14 (SEE PERMIT MAP). We prohibit 

hunting from canals or levees and those 

areas posted as closed. 

3. We do not open to hunting on 

Mondays, Tuesdays, and Christmas Day. 

4. We allow hunting on the refuge 

from 1⁄2 hour before legal sunrise to 1 

p.m. Hunters may enter the refuge no 

earlier than 4 a.m. and must be off the 

refuge by 3 p.m. 

5. Hunters may only enter and leave 

the refuge at the Headquarters Area 

(Boynton Beach) and the Hillsboro Area 

(Boca Raton). 

6. We allow only temporary blinds of 

native vegetation. 

7. Hunters must remove decoys and 

other personal property (see § 27.93 of 

this chapter) from the hunting area at 

the end of each hunt day. 

8. Hunters must complete a Migratory 

Bird Hunt Report (FWS Form 3–2361) 

and place it in an entrance fee canister 

each day prior to exiting the refuge. 

9. All youth hunters age 15 and 

younger must be supervised by a 

licensed and permitted adult age 21 or 

older, and must remain with the adult 

while hunting. Youth hunters must have 

completed a hunter education course. 

10. We allow only boats equipped 

with factory-manufactured-water-cooled 

outboard motors, boats with electric 

motors, and nonmotorized boats. We 

prohibit boats with air-cooled engines, 

airboats, fan boats, hovercraft, and 

personal watercraft (Jet Skis, Jet Boats, 

Wave Runners, etc.). 

11. There is a 35 mph speed limit in 

all waters of the refuge. A 500-foot (150- 

meter) Idle Speed Zone is at each of the 

refuge’s three boat ramps. 

12. We require all boats operating 

outside of the main perimeter canals 

(the L–40 Canal, L–39 Canal, L–7 Canal, 

and L–101 Canal) in interior areas of the 

refuge and within the hunt area to fly a 

12-inch by 12-inch (30-cm by 30-cm) 

orange flag 10 feet (3 m) above the 

vessel’s waterline. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of alligators on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with Federal 

and State regulations, and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge alligator hunt permit 

(signed brochure) while hunting. These 

brochures are available at the refuge 

visitor center and on the refuge’s 

website (http://www.fws.gov/ 

loxahatchee/). 

2. We allow hunting in the interior of 

the refuge south of latitude line 

26.27.130 and north of mile markers 12 

and 14, including the canals south of 

that line (SEE PERMIT MAP). We 

prohibit hunting from levees and those 

areas posted as closed. 

3. We allow hunting on the refuge 1 

hour before sunset on Friday night 

through 1 hour after sunrise Saturday 

morning, and 1 hour before sunset on 

Saturday night through 1 hour after 

sunrise Sunday morning. We allow 

alligator hunting the first 2 weekends 

during Harvest Period 1 (August) and 

the first 2 weekends during Harvest 

Period 2 (September). Following the 

close of Harvest Period 2, the remaining 

weekends in October will be open for 

alligator harvest permittees who possess 

unused CITES tags. Specific dates for 

the alligator hunt will be provided on 

the harvest permit. 

4. Hunters age 18 and older must be 

in possession of all necessary State and 

Federal licenses, permits, and CITES 

tags, as well as a refuge hunt permit 

(signed hunt brochure) while hunting 

on the refuge. They must possess an 

Alligator Trapping License with CITES 

tags or an Alligator Trapping Agent 

License, if applicable. 

5. Hunters age 17 and younger may 

not hunt, but may only accompany an 

adult age 21 or older who possesses an 

Alligator Trapping Agent License. 

6. Hunters may only enter and leave 

the refuge at the Hillsboro Area 

(Loxahatchee Road, Boca Raton). 

7. You may take alligators using handheld snares, harpoons, gigs, snatch 

hooks, artificial lures, manually 

operated spears, spear guns, and 

crossbows. We prohibit the taking of 

alligators using baited hooks, baited 

wooden pegs, or firearms. We allow the 

use of bang sticks (a hand-held pole 

with a pistol or shotgun cartridge on the 

end in a very short barrel) with nontoxic 

ammunition only for taking alligators 

attached to a restraining line (see 

§ 32.2(k)). Once an alligator is captured, 

it must be killed immediately. We 

prohibit catch and release of alligators. 

Once the alligator is dead, you must 

lock a CITES tag through the skin of the 

carcass within 6 inches (15.2 

centimeters) of the tip of the tail. The 

tag must remain attached to the alligator 

at all times. 

8. Hunters must remove all personal 

property (see § 27.93 of this chapter) 

from the hunting area at the end of each 

hunt day. 

9. We allow only one vessel per 

hunting group or party. 

10. Conditions A9 and A10 apply. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with Federal and State 

regulations, and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing south of a line of 

latitude of 26.27.130 and in the rim 

canal in the rest of the refuge. We 

prohibit fishing in those areas posted as 

closed to fishing or to the public. 

2. We only allow the use of rods and 

reels and poles and lines, and anglers 

must attend them at all times. 

3. We prohibit commercial fishing 

and the taking of frogs, turtles, and other 

wildlife (see § 27.21 of this chapter). 

4. We allow 12 fishing tournaments a 

year by Special Use Permit only 

(General Activities—Special Use Permit 

Application, FWS Form 3–1383–G). 

Contact the Refuge Office at 561–735– 

6029 for more information. 

5. We prohibit the possession or use 

of cast nets, seines, trot lines, jugs, gigs, 

and other fishing devices. 

6. Anglers may only launch boats at 

the Headquarters Area (Boynton Beach), 

the Hillsboro Area (Boca Raton), and 20 

Mile Bend (West Palm Beach). 

7. Conditions A9 and A10 apply. 

* * * * * 

J. N. ‘‘Ding’’ Darling National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and crabbing in refuge waters in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow the take of crabs with the 

use of dip nets only. 

* * * * * 

6. We allow launching of canoes and 

kayaks anywhere on the right (north) 

side of Wildlife Drive. We prohibit 

launching motorized vessels over 14 feet 

(4.2 meters) in length from Wildlife 

Drive. Motorized vessels less than 14 

feet (4.2 meters) in length may only be 

launched from designated site #2. 

* * * * * 

10. We prohibit the use of cast nets 

from the left (south) side of Wildlife 

Drive or any water control structure, 

bridge, boardwalk, or rip rap affixed to 

Wildlife Drive. 

11. All fish must remain in whole 

condition until removed from refuge 

lands and waters. 

* * * * * 

13. We prohibit airboats, hovercraft, 

personal watercraft, and ‘‘Go-Devil’’- 

style outboard motors. 

* * * * * 

Lake Woodruff National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, feral hog, 

and turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We require a valid Lake Woodruff 

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purchased through Florida Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Commission; and 

a valid Lake Woodruff National Wildlife 

Refuge hunt permit (signed annual hunt 

brochure), which is free and 

nontransferable. 

2. All hunters must be on stands or in 

blinds during deer hunts. 

* * * * * 

5. You may set up stands or blinds 2 

days prior to the hunt for which you are 

permitted, and you must remove them 

on or before the last day of your 

permitted hunt. You must clearly mark 

stands with the hunter’s name and 

address or the Florida Fish and Wildlife 

Conservation Commission (FWC) permit 

number found on your hunting license. 

No more than one stand or blind per 

person may be on the refuge at any time, 

unless a permitted hunter is 

accompanied by a youth hunter. Stands 

and/or blinds for youth hunters must be 

placed within sight and normal voice 

contact of the permitted hunter’s stand 

and marked with the adult permitted 

hunter’s name and address or the FWC 

permit number and the word ‘‘YOUTH.’’ 

6. If you use flagging or other trail 

marking material, you must print your 

name or FWC permit number on each 

piece or marker. You may set up 

flagging and trail markers 2 days prior 

to the permitted hunt, and you must 

remove them on or before the last day 

of the permitted hunt. 

* * * * * 

8. The Western Unit is only accessible 

by boat. 

* * * * * 

12. We prohibit shotgun loads larger 

than number two shot and slugs during 

turkey hunts. 

* * * * * 

■ 9. Amend § 32.29 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Blackbeard Island 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs C.7, C.8, C.10, 

C.13, C.14, and C.21; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs C.9, C.11, 

C.12, and C.15 through C.20 as 

paragraphs C.7, C.8, C.9, and C.10 

through C.15, respectively; 

■ iii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph C.12; and 

■ iv. Removing paragraph D.3; 

■ b. Under the entry Harris Neck 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.4, C.8, 

C.13, C.14, C.16, and C.20; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs C.5, C.6, 

C.7, C.9 through C.12, C.15, C.17, C.18, 

and C.19 as paragraphs C.3, C.4, C.5, C.6 

through C.9, C.10, C.11, C.12, and C.13, 

respectively; 

■ iii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph C.12; 

■ iv. Removing paragraphs D.3 and D.5; 

and 

■ v. Redesignating paragraph D.4 as D.3; 

■ c. Revising the entry Okefenokee 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Under the entry Savannah National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A.2 and A.3; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.4, A.5, and 

A.8; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs A.6 and 

A.7 as A.4 and A.5, respectively; 

■ iv. Revising paragraph B.1; 

■ v. Removing paragraphs B.2, B.4, and 

B.5; 

■ vi. Redesignating paragraphs B.3 and 

B.6 as paragraphs B.2 and B.3, 

respectively; 

■ vii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph B.3, and paragraphs C.1 and 

C.2; 

■ viii. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.6, 

and C.11; 

■ ix. Redesignating paragraphs C.4, C.5, 

and C.7 through C.10 as paragraphs C.3, 

C.4, and C.5 through C.8, respectively; 

■ x. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph C.8, and paragraph D.3; 

■ xi. Removing paragraphs D.5 and D.7; 

and 

■ xii. Redesignating paragraph D.6 as 

D.5; and 

■ e. Under the entry Wassaw National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs C.2, C.3, C.6, 

C.7, C.14, and C.22; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs C.4, C.5, 

C.8 through C.13, and C.15 through C.21 

as paragraphs C.2, C.3, C.4 through C.9, 

and C.10 through C.16, respectively; 

■ iii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraphs C.5, C.8, and C.14; and 

■ iv. Removing paragraph D.4. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.29 Georgia. 

* * * * * 

Blackbeard Island National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

12. Youth hunters age 15 and younger 

must remain within sight and normal 

voice contact of an adult age 21 or older. 

One adult may supervise no more than 

one youth hunter. 

* * * * * 

Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

12. Youth hunters age 15 and younger 

must remain within sight and normal 

voice contact of an adult age 21 or older. 

One adult may supervise no more than 

one youth hunter. 

* * * * * 

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

the hunting of rabbit, squirrel, bobwhite 

quail, and turkey on the Cowhouse Unit 

of the refuge. The season will be 

consistent with the adjacent Dixon 

Memorial Wildlife Management Area 

and in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We only allow foot and bicycle 

traffic on the refuge portion of 

Cowhouse Island. 

2. We only allow dogs to locate, point, 

and retrieve during quail hunts. 

3. Feral hogs can only be taken during 

small game dates after October 31. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of turkey only on the Cowhouse 

Island Unit of the refuge. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and feral 

hog, as an incidental take, at the 

Suwannee Canal Recreation Area, the 

Pocket Unit, and Cowhouse Island Unit 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. In the Pocket Unit: 

i. We only allow archery hunting and 

foot traffic. 

ii. You must sign in and out daily. 

iii. We prohibit possessing a cocked 

crossbow in a motor vehicle. 

iv. We allow nonmotorized scouting 7 

days prior to scheduled hunt. 

2. In the Suwannee Canal Unit: 

i. We only allow two half-day hunts 

reserved for 30 hunters and 10 mobilityimpaired/youth hunters. 

ii. We allow only shotguns with slugs 

or muzzleloaders. 

iii. We require a refuge permit (Big/ 

Upland Game Hunt Application, FWS 

Form 3–2356) obtained through refuge 

lottery. 

iv. You must sign in and sign out 

daily. 

v. You must tag your deer with 

special refuge tags. 

vi. There is a limit of two deer of 

either sex per day. 

vii. We zone Chesser Island Hunt area 

to accommodate mobility-impaired and 

youth hunters. Only mobility-impaired 

hunters may use ATVs and vehicles on 

firebreaks and unpaved roads. 

viii. We allow nonmotorized scouting 

7 days prior to scheduled hunt. 

ix. Condition C.1.iii applies. 

3. In the Cowhouse Island Unit: 

i. Dixon Memorial Wildlife 

Management Area rules, regulations, 

dates, and times apply. 

ii. Conditions B.1, C.1.iii, and C.1.iv 

apply. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You may use only 10 horsepower 

motors or less on the refuge. 


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2. We prohibit possession of live bait 

fish. 

3. We only allow the use of pole and 

line or rod and reel. 

4. We prohibit paddleboarding, air 

boats, swimming, and wading. 

5. All boats must be off the water by 

posted time. 

6. In the Suwannee Canal Unit, we 

prohibit fishing in ponds and canals 

along Swamp Island Drive. 

* * * * * 

Savannah National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

2. To participate in the quota youth 

waterfowl hunt, youth hunters must 

submit the Waterfowl Lottery 

Application (FWS Form 3–2355). You 

must pay an application fee to enter the 

hunt drawing. 

3. Youth hunters, defined as those age 

15 and younger, must remain within 

sight and normal voice contact of an 

adult age 21 or older. One adult may 

supervise no more than two youth 

hunters. 

* * * * * 

B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1 and A4 apply. 

* * * * * 

3. Youth hunters, defined as those age 

15 and younger, must remain within 

sight and normal voice contact of an 

adult age 21 or older. One adult may 

supervise no more than one youth 

hunter. 

C. * * * 

1. Conditions A1, A4, and B3 apply. 

2. To participate in the quota gun 

hunt for wheelchair-dependent hunters, 

hunters must submit the Quota Deer 

Hunt Application (FWS Form 3–2354). 

To participate in the quota Youth 

Turkey Hunt & Learn Weekend, youth 

hunters must submit the Big/Upland 

Game Hunt Application (FWS Form 3– 

2356). You must pay an application fee 

to enter these hunt drawings. 

* * * * * 

8. We prohibit the use of trail or game 

cameras. 

D. * * * 

3. We allow fishing from legal sunrise 

to legal sunset. 

* * * * * 

Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

5. We allow only shotguns (20 gauge 

or larger; slug only), center-fire rifles, 

center-fire pistols, bows, and primitive 

weapons, in accordance with State 

regulations, for deer and hog hunting 

during the gun hunt. 

* * * * * 

8. We only allow camping at the 

designated camping area. 

* * * * * 

14. Youth hunters age 15 and younger 

must remain within sight and normal 

voice contact of an adult age 21 or older. 

One adult may supervise no more than 

one youth hunter. 

* * * * * 

■ 10. Amend § 32.32 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Great River 

National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ b. Adding, in alphabetical order, an 

entry for Hackmatack National Wildlife 

Refuge. 

The addition and revision read as 

follows: 

§ 32.32 Illinois. 

* * * * * 

Great River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl and coot on 

the Long Island and Slim Island 

Divisions of the refuge in accordance 

with State and Federal regulations, and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. On the Long Island Division, we 

allow hunting only from blinds 

constructed on sites posted by the 

Illinois Department of Natural 

Resources. 

2. For hunting, you may use or 

possess only approved nontoxic shot 

shells while in the field, including shot 

shells used for hunting wild turkey (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of small game, furbearers, and 

game birds on the Long Island, Fox 

Island, and Slim Island Divisions, and 

Cherry Box and Hickory Creek Units of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Condition A2 applies. 

2. We open refuge divisions for 

upland game hunting from 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise to 1⁄2 hour after legal 

sunset. On the Cherry Box and Hickory 

Creek Units, we allow hunting with 

shotgun only during the Statewide 

upland game season. 

3. We close Fox Island Division to all 

upland game hunting from October 16 

through December 31. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated portions of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A2 applies, except for 

when hunting for white-tailed deer. 

2. We only allow portable tree stands 

from September 1 through January 31 of 

each year. The hunter’s full name, 

address, and State-generated hunter 

identification number must be 

permanently attached in a visible 

location on the stand. Limit one stand 

per hunter. 

3. On the Fox Island and Slim Island 

Divisions, we only allow deer hunting 

during the Statewide archery deer 

season and special State-managed 

hunts. 

4. On the Cherry Box and Hickory 

Creek Units, we allow deer hunting 

during the Statewide archery deer 

season only. 

5. On the Delair Division, we only 

allow deer hunting during special 

managed hunts and subject to the 

following conditions: 

i. You must possess and carry a refuge 

permit (hunt letter) when hunting. 

ii. You must register at the hunter 

sign-in/out station and record the sex 

and age of deer harvested on the Big 

Game Harvest Report (FWS Form 3– 

2359). Shooting hours end at 3 p.m. 

each day. 

6. On the Long Island Division, we 

allow deer and turkey hunting in 

accordance with State seasons and 

regulations. 

7. On the Slim Island Division, we 

allow turkey hunting in accordance 

with State seasons and regulations. 

8. On the Fox Island Division, Cherry 

Box Unit, and Hickory Creek Unit, we 

allow turkey hunting during the State 

spring season, youth season, and fall 

archery season. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

the Long Island, Fox Island, and Slim 

Island Divisions of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit the taking of turtle and 

frog (see § 27.21 of this chapter). 

2. On the Fox Island Division, we 

only allow bank fishing along any 

portion of the Fox River from January 1 

through October 15. 

Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with Federal and State 

regulations, and subject to the following 

condition: We allow the use of only 

portable or temporary blinds. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

upland game hunting on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow the use of only portable 

or temporary blinds. 

2. For hunting, you may possess only 

approved nontoxic shot shells while in 

the field, including shot shells used for 

hunting wild turkey (see § 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow big 

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refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: Condition B.2 applies. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

■ 11. Amend § 32.35 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Flint Hills National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph A.5; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.6, A.7, A.8, 

and A.10.iii; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs A.9 and 

A.10 as paragraphs A.6 and A.7, 

respectively; 

■ iv. Revising paragraph B.1; 

■ v. Removing paragraph B.2; 

■ vi. Redesignating paragraphs B.3 and 

B.4 as paragraphs B.2 and B.3, 

respectively; 

■ vii. Removing paragraphs C.4 and C.7; 

■ viii. Revising paragraph C.5; 

■ ix. Redesignating paragraph C.6 as 

paragraph C.4; and 

■ x. Revising paragraph D.2; 

■ b. Under the entry Kirwin National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph A; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs B.3, B.4, and 

B.5; 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs C.2 and C.4; 

■ iv. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.6, C.7, 

C.8, and C.9; 

■ v. Redesignating paragraph C.5 as 

paragraph C.3; 

■ vi. Removing paragraphs D.2, D.5, D.8, 

and D.9; and 

■ vii. Redesignating paragraphs D.3, 

D.4, D.6, and D.7 as paragraphs D.2, D.3, 

D.4, and D.5, respectively; 

■ c. Under the entry Marais des Cygnes 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraph A.5; 

■ ii. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph B and paragraph B.1; 

■ iii. Removing paragraph B.4; 

■ iv. Revising paragraph C.1; 

■ v. Removing paragraph C.3; and 

■ vi. Redesignating paragraphs C.4 and 

C.5 as paragraphs C.3 and C.4, 

respectively; and 

■ d. Under the entry Quivira National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.2, A.5, A.6, 

and A.7; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs A.3, A.4, 

A.8, and A.9 as paragraphs A.2, A.3, 

A.4, and A.5, respectively; 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs B.1, D.1, and 

D.7; and 

■ iv. Removing paragraph D.8. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.35 Kansas. 

* * * * * 

Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

5. You may leave temporary blinds 

(other than portable blinds) constructed 

of natural vegetation found on site 

overnight. We prohibit bringing any 

type of live or dead vegetation onto the 

refuge for any purpose at any time. 

* * * * * 

B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1 and A3 apply. 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

5. Conditions A1, A3, and B2 apply. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

2. We prohibit the take of reptiles and 

amphibians. 

Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, 

merganser, coot, mourning dove, and 

snipe on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. You may use natural vegetation to 

construct a temporary blind. 

2. You may use portable hunting 

blinds. 

3. We only allow waterfowl hunting 

by boat in Bow Creek. You may not 

create a wake while in Bow Creek. 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

2. You must obtain a refuge-issued 

permit to hunt deer on the refuge. 

* * * * * 

4. We prohibit retrieving deer or 

turkey from an area closed to deer or 

turkey hunting. 

* * * * * 

Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of cottontail rabbit, squirrel, 

and upland birds on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A3 apply. 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

1. Conditions A1, A3, A4, and B2 

apply. 

* * * * * 

Quivira National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1 through A3 apply. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

1. We prohibit taking of frog, snake, 

or any other wildlife (see § 27.21 of this 

chapter). 

* * * * * 

7. Condition A2 applies. 

■ 12. Amend § 32.37 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Bayou Sauvage 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A.1, A.3, and 

A.8; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.9, A.11, 

A.12, A.14, A.15, A.16, A.17, A.18, and 

A.19; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs A.10, 

A.13, and A.20 as paragraphs A.9, A.10, 

and A.11, respectively; 

■ iv. Revising paragraph D.6; and 

■ v. Removing paragraphs D.7, D.8, and 

D.9; 

■ b. Revising the entry Bayou Teche 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Big Branch 

Marsh National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Bogue Chitto 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ e. Under the entry Delta National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph A.3; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.4, A.7, 

A.12, A.14, A.15, and A.16; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs A.5, A.6, 

A.8 through A.11, and A.13 as 

paragraphs A.4, A.5, A.6 through A.9, 

and A.10, respectively; 

■ iv. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph A.9, and paragraphs B.4, C.1, 

C.3, and C.5; 

■ v. Removing paragraphs C.6 and C.7; 

■ vi. Redesignating paragraphs C.8 and 

C.9 as paragraphs C.6 and C.7, 

respectively; 

■ vii. Removing paragraph D.2; 

■ viii. Redesignating paragraphs D.3 

through D.5 as paragraphs D.2 through 

D.4, respectively; and 

■ ix. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph D.3; 

■ f. Under the entry Mandalay National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.6, A.8, A.9, 

A.10, A.11, and A.12; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs A.3 

through A.5 as paragraphs A.4 through 

A.6, respectively; 

■ iii. Adding new paragraph A.3; 

■ iv. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph A.4; 

■ v. Revising paragraphs C.7 and C.8; 

■ vi. Removing paragraph D.1; 

■ vii. Redesignating paragraphs D.2 

through D.6 as D.1 through D.5, 

respectively; and 

■ viii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph D.4; and 

■ g. Revising the entry Tensas River 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The addition and revisions read as 

follows: 

§ 32.37 Louisiana. 

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Refuge 

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1. We consider all waterfowl and coot 

hunting to be youth hunts. An adult at 

least age 21 must supervise youth 

hunters during hunts. State regulations 

define youth hunter age and huntereducations requirements. The youth 

must be capable of and must actively 

participate in such hunt by the 

possession and/or firing of a legal 

weapon during such hunt for the 

express purpose of harvesting game. 

* * * * * 

3. We allow waterfowl hunting on 

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and 

Sundays from one half hour before legal 

sunrise until 12 p.m. (noon), on 

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and 

Sundays, including early teal season, 

youth waterfowl hunt season, or other 

such special seasons that may be 

promulgated by law or statute. We will 

close the refuge to waterfowl and coot 

hunting during any segment of goose 

season that extends beyond the regular 

duck season. 

* * * * * 

8. When hunting migratory game 

birds, we only allow the use of dogs to 

locate, point, and retrieve. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

6. Condition A10 applies. 

* * * * * 

Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

and waterfowl on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions. 

1. All hunters must possess and carry 

a signed hunt permit while hunting on 

the refuge. This permit is free and 

available on the front cover of the refuge 

brochure. 

2. We prohibit hunting in and/or 

shooting into or across any agricultural 

field, roadway, or canal. 

3. An adult age 21 or older must 

supervise youth hunters during all 

hunts. State regulations define youth 

hunter age and hunter-educations 

requirements. One adult may supervise 

two youths during small game and 

migratory game bird hunts but may 

supervise only one youth during big 

game hunts. Youth(s) must remain 

within normal voice contact of the adult 

who is supervising them. Adult 

guardians are responsible for ensuring 

that youth hunters do not engage in 

conduct that would constitute a 

violation of refuge regulations. 

4. We require waterfowl hunters to 

remove all portable blinds, boats, 

decoys, and other personal equipment 

from the refuge by 1 p.m. daily. 

5. All hunters must check-in prior to 

hunting and check out after hunting at 

a refuge self-clearing check station. You 

must report all game taken on the refuge 

when checking out by using the check 

card. 

6. We prohibit airboats and marsh 

buggies (tracked vehicles) on the refuge. 

We restrict motorized boat use to 

existing canals, ditches, trenasses, 

ponds, and from areas marked as 

nonmotorized areas only. 

7. We prohibit parking, walking, or 

hunting within 150 feet (45 meters (m)) 

of any active oil well site, production 

facility, or equipment. We also prohibit 

hunting within 150 feet (45 m) of any 

public road, refuge road, building, 

residence, or designated public facility. 

8. We allow hunting until 12 p.m. 

(noon). Hunters may only enter the 

refuge after 4 a.m. 

9. We allow waterfowl hunting in 

Centerville, Garden City, Bayou Sale, 

North Bend East, and North Bend West 

Units during the State waterfowl season. 

We open no other units to migratory 

waterfowl hunting. 

10. We only allow dogs to locate, 

point, and retrieve when hunting for 

migratory game birds. 

11. We prohibit the use of any type of 

material used as flagging or trail 

markers, except reflective tacks. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel and rabbit on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We only allow hunting from the 

start of the State squirrel and rabbit 

seasons until the last day of State 

waterfowl season in the Coastal Zone, 

except that the Centerville Unit will be 

open until the last day of the State 

waterfowl season in the East Zone. 

2. We prohibit squirrel and rabbit 

hunting in the Franklin Unit. 

3. We prohibit upland game hunting 

on days corresponding with refuge deer 

gun hunts. 

4. We allow hunters to enter the 

refuge after 4 a.m., but they must leave 

the refuge 1 hour after legal sunset. 

5. We allow hunting 7 days per week 

beginning with the opening of the State 

season through the last day of the State 

waterfowl season in the Coastal Zone in 

the following refuge units: Garden City, 

Bayou Sale, North Bend—East, and 

North Bend—West Units. The 

Centerville Unit is in the East Zone. We 

open no other units to the hunting of 

upland game. 

6. Conditions A1 through A3, A5 

through A7, and A11 apply, except we 

allow the use of .17 and .22 caliber 

rimfire or smaller while hunting small 

game. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow the 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow hunting of deer only with 

firearms (see § 27.42 of this chapter) 

during 5 specific days during October 

and November. A youth gun hunt will 

occur during the last weekend of 

October. The general gun hunt will 

occur during the final full weekend in 

November. The youth gun hunt includes 

both Saturday and Sunday. The general 

gun hunt includes the Friday 

immediately before the weekend. 

2. We allow archery deer hunting 

from the start of the State archery season 

until January 31. Hunters may take deer 

of either sex in accordance with Stateapproved archery equipment and 

regulations. The State season limits 

apply. The following units are open to 

archery deer hunting: Bayou Sale, North 

Bend—East, North Bend—West, and 

Garden City. The Centerville Unit is 

open until February 15. We close refuge 

archery hunting on those days that the 

refuge deer gun hunts occur. 

3. We do not allow hunting within 

500 feet (152.4 meters) of the Garden 

City parking area and boardwalk. 

4. The Bayou Sale Unit is not open for 

big game firearm hunts. 

5. We allow each hunter to possess 

only one deer per day; the deer may be 

a buck or a doe. State season limits 

apply. 

6. You may take feral hogs only as 

incidental take with archery equipment 

while participating in the refuge deer 

archery hunt. 

7. Hunters may use only portable deer 

stands. Hunters may erect deer stands 

one day before the deer archery season 

and must remove them from the refuge 

within 1 day after the season closes. 

Hunters may place only one deer stand 

on a refuge. Deer stands must have 

owner’s name, address, and phone 

number clearly printed on the stand. 

Hunters must place stands in a 

nonhunting position when not in use 

(see § 27.93 of this chapter). 

8. Conditions A1 through A3, A5 

through A7, A11, and B3 apply. 

9. We prohibit the use of trail 

cameras. 

10. We prohibit the use of deer 

decoys. 

11. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing in 

all refuge waters in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We prohibit the use of unattended 

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2. The refuge is open from legal 

sunrise until legal sunset unless stated 

otherwise. 

3. The Franklin Unit canals (birdfoot 

canals) will be open for motorized boats 

between April 15 and August 31. This 

unit is open to nonmotorized boats all 

year. 

4. Condition A6 applies. 

Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, coot, goose, 

snipe, rail, gallinule, and woodcock on 

designated areas of the refuge during the 

State season for these species in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow waterfowl hunting on 

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and 

Sundays from 1⁄2 hour before legal 

sunrise until 12 p.m. (noon), including 

the State special teal season and State 

youth waterfowl hunt. 

2. We do not open the refuge to goose 

hunting for that part of the season that 

extends beyond the regular duck season. 

3. We allow only temporary blinds, 

and hunters must remove the blinds and 

decoys by 1 p.m. (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). 

4. Hunters must possess and carry a 

valid refuge hunt permit (signed 

brochure). 

5. We prohibit air-thrust boats, 

aircraft, mud boats, and air-cooled 

propulsion engines on the refuge. 

6. An adult age 21 or older must 

supervise youth hunters during all 

hunts. State regulations define youth 

hunter age and hunter-education 

requirements. One adult may supervise 

two youths during small game hunts 

and migratory bird hunts, but is only 

allowed to supervise one youth during 

big game hunts. Youths must remain 

within normal voice contact of the adult 

who is supervising them. Adult 

guardians are responsible for ensuring 

that youth hunters do not engage in 

conduct that would constitute a 

violation of refuge regulations. 

7. We prohibit hunting or discharge of 

firearm (see § 27.42 of this chapter) 

within 150 feet (45 meters (m)) of any 

residence or structure adjacent to the 

refuge, from the centerline of any road, 

railroad, designated public use 

maintained trails, designated parking 

area, or other designated public use 

facilities. We prohibit hunting in refugedesignated closed areas, which we post 

on the refuge and identify in the refuge 

hunt permits (see § 27.31 of this 

chapter). 

8. We open the refuge to public entry 

from 1⁄2 hour before legal sunrise to 1⁄2

hour after legal sunset with the 

exception that hunters may enter the 

refuge earlier, but not before 4 a.m. and 

must exit the refuge no later than 2 

hours after legal sunset for that day. 

9. We only allow reflective tacks to be 

left on the refuge as trail markers. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, and quail on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow upland game hunting 

during the open State season. When 

hunting, you must possess only 

approved nontoxic shot (see § 32.2(k) of 

this chapter), shot size 4 or smaller, or 

0.22 caliber rim-fire rifles or smaller. 

2. We allow the use of dogs for 

hunting squirrel and rabbit only after 

the close of the State archery deer 

season. 

3. We only allow dogs to locate, point, 

and retrieve when hunting for quail. 

4. Conditions A4 through A9 apply. 

5. All hunters, including archers 

(while on the ground), except waterfowl 

hunters must wear a hunter orange cap 

or hat during the dog season for squirrel 

and rabbit that is hunter orange, blaze 

pink, or other such color that meets 

State hunter safety requirements. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and feral 

hog on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We are open only during the State 

season for archery hunting of deer. 

2. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

3. We allow the take of either-sex deer 

in accordance with State-approved 

archery equipment and regulations. The 

State season limits apply. Archery 

equipment, which State regulations 

define as legal gear for archery season, 

will be a legal means of take during the 

deer archery season. 

4. We allow placement of temporary 

deer stands 1 day prior to the start of 

deer archery season. Hunters must 

remove all deer stands within 1 day 

after the archery deer season closes. 

Hunters are allowed to place only one 

deer stand on the refuge. Deer stands 

must have the owner’s name, address, 

and phone number clearly printed on 

the stand. We prohibit hunting stands 

on trees painted with white bands. 

5. We allow take of feral hogs only as 

incidental take with archery equipment 

while participating in the refuge deer 

archery hunt. 

6. Conditions A4 through A9 apply. 

7. We prohibit the use of trail 

cameras. 

8. We prohibit the use of deer decoys. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing in 

designated waters of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You may fish only from 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise until 1⁄2 hour after 

legal sunset, except we allow night 

fishing from the bank and pier on Lake 

Road. 

2. You must only use rods and reel or 

pole and lines while fishing. 

3. We prohibit the use of trotlines, 

limblines, slat traps, gar sets, nets, or 

alligator lines on the refuge. We allow 

take of bait with cast nets 8 feet (2.4 

meters) in diameter or less. 

4. We allow recreational crabbing. 

5. Condition A5 applies. 

6. You must attend to any fishing, 

crabbing, and crawfishing equipment at 

all times. 

* * * * * 

Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, and 

woodcock on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow hunting from 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise until 12 p.m. (noon), 

including the State special teal season 

and State youth waterfowl hunt. You 

must remove blinds and decoys by 1 

p.m. (see § 27.93 of this chapter). We do 

not open the refuge to goose hunting for 

that part of the season that extends 

beyond the regular duck season. 

2. We allow woodcock hunting in 

accordance with State regulations using 

only approved nontoxic shot (see 

§ 32.2(k)) size #4 or smaller. 

3. We allow public hunting on 

designated areas during the open State 

season for duck, goose, coot, and 

woodcock. We designate areas where 

public use is restricted in the refuge 

hunt permit (signed brochure) or by 

designated signage. 

4. When hunting for migratory game 

birds, we only allow dogs to locate, 

point, and retrieve. 

5. Hunters must possess and carry a 

valid refuge hunt permit (signed refuge 

brochure). 

6. An adult age 21 or older must 

supervise youth hunters during all 

hunts. State regulations define youth 

hunter age and hunter-education 

requirements. One adult is allowed to 

supervise two youths during small game 

hunts and migratory bird hunts but may 

supervise only one youth during big 

game hunts. Youths must remain within 

normal voice contact of the adult who 

is supervising them. Adult guardians are 

responsible for ensuring that youth 

hunters do not engage in conduct that 

would constitute a violation of refuge 

regulations. 

7. We prohibit hunting or discharge of 

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within 150 feet (45.7 meters) from the 

centerline of any public road, refuge 

road, designated or maintained trail, 

building, residence, designated camping 

area, designated public facility, or from 

or across aboveground oil, gas, or 

electric facilities. We prohibit hunting 

in refuge-designated closed areas, which 

we post on the refuge and identify in the 

refuge hunt permits (signed brochure). 

8. For the purpose of hunting, we 

prohibit possession of slugs, buckshot, 

rifle, or pistol ammunition unless 

otherwise specified. 

9. We allow primitive camping within 

100 feet (30 meters) of designated 

streams. These include either bank of 

the Boque Chitto River, Wilson Slough, 

and West Pearl River south of Wilson 

Slough; refuge lands along the East Pearl 

River; and Holmes Bayou. Campers 

must mark their campsite with the 

owner’s name, address, phone number, 

and dates of occupancy placed in a 

conspicuous location in the center of 

camp. 

10. We prohibit horses, trail cameras, 

all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and utilityterrain vehicles (UTVs), except UTVs 

are allowed on designated physically 

challenged hunt trails and are restricted 

to physically challenged State-issued 

permit holders and persons 60 years or 

older with proof of age for all refuge 

designated hunts. Those users may 

utilize Physically Challenged UTV trails 

as indicated on the refuge hunt permit 

(signed brochure) map. Physically 

Challenged UTV users must not deviate 

from the designated UTV trails on the 

area map. Vehicles must park in 

designated parking areas. We prohibit 

blocking gates, trails, or roads with a 

vehicle or UTV. 

11. We only allow reflective tacks to 

be left on the refuge as trail markers. 

12. We allow State-licensed 

physically challenged hunters and 

persons 60 years or older with proof of 

age exclusive use of designated 

physically challenged hunt trails for any 

open hunt seasons on the refuge. 

Specific hunt trails are designated on 

the refuge hunt permit (signed 

brochure). An assistant may accompany 

the physically challenged or person 60 

years or older while hunting, but the 

assistant may not hunt. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, and 

opossum on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow the use of dogs for rabbit, 

squirrel, raccoon, and opossum on 

specific dates listed in the refuge hunt 

brochure. 

2. We will close the refuge to hunting 

(except waterfowl) and camping when 

the Pearl River reaches 15.5 feet (4.65 

meters) on the Pearl River Gauge at 

Pearl River, Louisiana. 

3. We prohibit the take of feral hog 

during any upland game hunts. 

4. All hunters, except waterfowl 

hunters and nighttime raccoon and 

opossum hunters, must abide by State 

WMA hunter-orange or blaze pink (or 

other approved colors by the State) 

regulations during any open deer 

firearm or primitive firearm season on 

the refuge. During the dog season for 

squirrels and rabbits, all hunters, 

including archery hunters (while on the 

ground), except waterfowl hunters, must 

wear a hunter-orange (or blaze pink in 

Louisiana, or other approved color by 

the State) hat or cap. Deer hunters 

hunting from concealed blinds must 

display State WMA hunter-orange or 

blaze-pink (as required by State 

regulations) above or around their 

blinds; this must be visible from 360 

degrees. 

5. Conditions A5 through A12 apply, 

except you may use .22-caliber rifles or 

smaller, and the nontoxic shot in your 

possession while hunting must be size 

4 or smaller (see § 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, turkey, and 

feral hog on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A5 through A7, A9 

through A10, A12, B2, and B4 apply. 

2. Hunters may erect deer stands one 

day before the deer archery season and 

must remove them from the refuge 

within 1 day after this season closes. We 

allow only one deer stand per hunter on 

the refuge. Deer stands must have the 

owner’s name, address, and phone 

number clearly printed on the stand. 

3. We allow take of hog as incidental 

game while participating in the refuge 

archery, primitive weapon, and general 

gun deer hunts and where otherwise 

specified using legal methods of take for 

the hunt. We list specific dates for the 

special hog hunt in February in the 

refuge hunt permit (signed brochure). 

During the special hog hunt in February, 

you must use trained hog-hunting dogs 

to aid in the take of hog. During the 

special hog hunt, we allow take of hog 

from 1⁄2 hour before legal sunrise until 1⁄2 hour after legal sunset. You must 

possess only approved nontoxic shot or 

pistol or rifle ammunition not larger 

than .22 caliber rim-fire to take the hog 

after it has been caught by dogs. 

Condition A8 applies during special hog 

hunt in February. 

4. You must kill all hogs prior to 

removal from the refuge. 

5. We prohibit the use of deer and 

turkey gobbler decoys. 

6. We prohibit using shot larger than 

BB lead or T steel while hunting during 

turkey season. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow 

recreational fishing year-round in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We only allow cotton limb lines. 

2. Conditions A8 and A10 apply. 

3. We close the fishing ponds at the 

Pearl River Turnaround to fishing from 

April through the first full week of June 

and to boating during the months of 

April, May, June, and July. 

4. When the Pearl River Turnaround 

area is open, we allow boats that do not 

have gasoline-powered engines attached 

in the fishing ponds at the Pearl River 

Turnaround. Anglers must hand-launch 

these boats into the ponds. When open, 

we only allow hook and line as a legal 

method of take in the fishing ponds at 

the Pearl River Turnaround. 

5. We allow trotlines, but the last 5 

feet of trotline must be 100% cotton. 

6. The Pearl River Turnaround area, 

when open, is open 1⁄2 hour before legal 

sunrise to 1⁄2 hour after legal sunset. 

* * * * * 

Delta National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

3. When hunting for migratory game 

birds, we only allow the use of dogs to 

locate, point, and retrieve. 

* * * * * 

9. An adult age 21 or older must 

supervise youth hunters during all 

hunts. State regulations define youth 

hunter age and hunter-educations 

requirements. One adult may supervise 

two youths during small game and 

migratory game bird hunts but must 

supervise only one youth during big 

game hunts. Youth(s) must remain 

within normal voice contact of the adult 

who is supervising them. Adult 

guardians are responsible for ensuring 

that youth hunters do not engage in 

conduct that would constitute a 

violation of refuge regulations. 

* * * * * 

B. * * * 

4. Conditions A4 through A10 apply. 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

1. Conditions A4 through A10 apply 

with the following exception to 

condition A9: Each adult is allowed to 

supervise only one youth hunter. 

* * * * * 

3. We only allow portable deer stands 

(see § 27.93 of this chapter). Hunters 

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deer archery season and must remove 

them from the refuge within 1 day after 

the season closes. Hunters may place 

only one deer stand on a refuge. Deer 

stands must have the owner’s name, 

address, and phone number clearly 

printed on the stand. 

* * * * * 

5. We allow the take of hog(s) only 

with archery equipment during the 

archery deer season. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

3. Conditions A6 and A7 apply. 

* * * * * 

Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

3. When hunting migratory game 

birds, we only allow the use of dogs to 

locate, point, and retrieve. 

4. An adult age 21 or older must 

supervise youth hunters during all 

hunts. State regulations define youth 

hunter age and hunter-educations 

requirements. One adult may supervise 

two youths during small game and 

migratory game bird hunts. An adult 

may supervise only one youth during 

big game hunts. Youth must remain 

within normal voice contact of the adult 

who is supervising them. Parents or 

adult guardians are responsible for 

ensuring that hunters age 16 or younger 

do not engage in conduct that would 

constitute a violation of refuge 

regulations. 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

7. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

8. Conditions A3, A4, and A7 apply. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

4. Condition A7 applies. 

* * * * * 

Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, coot, woodcock, 

and snipe on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow hunting of duck and coot 

on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and 

Sundays until 2:00 p.m. during the State 

season. We prohibit migratory bird 

hunting during refuge gun hunts for 

deer. 

2. We allow refuge hunters to enter 

the refuge no earlier than 4 a.m., and 

they must leave no later than 2 hours 

after legal sunset unless they are 

participating in the refuge nighttime 

raccoon hunt. 

3. In areas posted ‘‘Area Closed’’ or 

‘‘No Waterfowl Hunting Zone,’’ we 

prohibit hunting of migratory birds at 

any time. The Public Use Regulations 

brochure will be available at the refuge 

headquarters no later than August. 

4. We allow nonmotorized boats, 

electric motors, and boats with motors 

10 horsepower (hp) or less in refuge 

lakes, streams, and bayous. Boaters must 

follow State boating regulations, 

including those for navigation lights. 

We prohibit boat storage on the refuge. 

Hunters/anglers must remove boats 

daily (see § 27.93 of this chapter). 

5. We allow all-terrain vehicle (ATV) 

travel on designated trails for access 

typically from September 15 to the last 

day of the refuge squirrel season. We 

open designated trails from 4 a.m. to no 

later than 2 hours after legal sunset 

unless otherwise specified. We define 

an ATV as an off-road vehicle (not legal 

for highway use) with factory 

specifications not to exceed the 

following: Weight 750 pounds (337.5 

kilograms (kg)), length 85 inches (212.5 

centimeters (cm)), and width 48 inches 

(120 cm). We restrict ATV tires to those 

no larger than 26 inches (66 cm) by 12 

inches (30 cm) with a 1-inch (2.5-cm) 

lug height and maximum allowable tire 

pressure of 12 psi. Hunters/anglers 

using the refuge physically challenged 

all-terrain trails must possess the State’s 

Physically Challenged Program Hunter 

Permit or be age 60 or older. Additional 

physically challenged access 

information will be available at the 

refuge headquarters. 

6. We prohibit field dressing of game 

within 150 feet (45 meters (m)) of 

parking areas, maintained roads, and 

trails. 

7. An adult age 18 or older must 

supervise youth hunters age 17 or 

younger during all hunts. One adult 

may supervise two youths during small 

game and migratory bird hunts but may 

supervise only one youth during big 

game hunts. Youth must remain within 

normal voice contact of the adult who 

is supervising them. Parents or adult 

guardians are responsible for ensuring 

that hunters age 17 or younger do not 

engage in conduct that would constitute 

a violation of refuge regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of raccoon, squirrel, and rabbit 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow nighttime raccoon 

hunting beginning typically the third 

Saturday in December and typically 

ending January 31. We allow raccoon 

hunters to hunt from legal sunset to 

legal sunrise with the aid of dogs, 

horses, and mules, and with use of 

lights. We allow such use of lights on 

the refuge only at the point of kill. We 

prohibit all other use of lights for 

hunting on the refuge. Hunt dates will 

be available at refuge headquarters 

typically in July. We prohibit ATVs 

during the raccoon hunt. Hunters must 

attempt to take treed raccoons. 

2. We allow squirrel and rabbit 

hunting with and without dogs: 

i. We allow hunting without dogs 

from the beginning of the State season 

to December 31; during this time period, 

we do not require hunters to wear 

hunter orange. 

ii. We allow squirrel and rabbit 

hunting with or without dogs from 

January 1 to the last day of February; 

during this time period, we require a 

minimum of a solid-hunter-orange cap. 

iii. We allow no more than three dogs 

per hunting party. 

3. We close squirrel and rabbit 

hunting during the following gun hunts 

for deer: refuge-wide youth hunt, 

primitive firearms hunt, and modern 

firearms hunt. 

4. In areas posted ‘‘Area Closed’’ and 

‘‘No Hunting Zone,’’ we prohibit upland 

game hunting at any time. 

5. When hunting, we allow .22 caliber 

and smaller rimfire weapons. 

6. Conditions A2 and A4 through A7 

apply. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of refuges in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Deer archery season will begin the 

first Saturday in November and will 

conclude on January 31. We prohibit 

archery hunting during the following 

refuge-wide deer hunts: Youth gun hunt 

and modern firearms hunts. We prohibit 

possession of pods, drug-tipped arrows, 

or other chemical substances. 

2. The deer primitive firearms season 

will occur between November 1 and 

January 31. We allow all legal primitive 

firearms as defined by State regulations. 

3. During the deer primitive firearms 

season, hunters may fit any legal 

primitive firearms with magnified 

scopes. We allow hunters using 

primitive weapons to hunt reforested 

areas. We prohibit youth hunters from 

using modern firearms during the 

primitive weapon hunt. 

4. We will conduct two quotamodern-firearms hunts for deer 

typically in the months of November 

and/or December. Hunt dates and 

permit application procedures will be 

available at refuge headquarters no later 

than August. Hunters using primitive 

weapons or muzzleloaders must follow 

all modern firearm regulations (no 

hunting in reforested areas). We prohibit 

hunting and/or shooting into or across 

any reforested area during the quota 


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hunt for deer. We require a quota hunt 

permit for these hunts. 

5. We will conduct guided quota 

youth deer hunts and guided quota deer 

hunts for the Full-Time Wheelchair 

Users in the Greenlea Bend area 

typically in December and January. 

Hunt dates and permit application 

procedures will be available at the 

refuge headquarters typically in July. 

For the guided quota youth hunts, we 

consider youth to be ages 8 through 15. 

6. We will conduct a refuge-wide 

youth deer hunt. Hunt dates will be 

available at refuge headquarters 

typically in July. An adult at least age 

18 must supervise youth hunters age 15 

and younger during all hunts. One adult 

may supervise two youths during small 

game and migratory bird hunts but may 

supervise only one youth during big 

game hunts. Youth must remain within 

normal voice contact of the adult who 

is supervising them. Parents or adult 

guardians are responsible for ensuring 

that hunters age 16 and younger do not 

engage in conduct that would constitute 

a violation of refuge regulations. 

7. Hunters may take only one deer 

(one buck or one doe) per day during 

refuge deer hunts except during guided 

youth and wheelchair-bound hunts 

where the limit will be one antlerless 

and one antlered deer per day. 

8. We allow turkey hunting the first 

16 days of the State turkey season. We 

will conduct a youth turkey hunt the 

Saturday and Sunday before the regular 

State turkey season. Hunters may 

harvest two bearded turkeys per season. 

We allow the use and possession of lead 

shot while turkey hunting on the refuge 

(see § 32.2(k)). We allow use of 

nonmotorized bicycles on designated 

all-terrain vehicle trails. Although you 

may hunt turkey without displaying a 

solid-hunter-orange cap or vest during 

your turkey hunt, we do recommend its 

use. 

9. Conditions A2, A4, A5, and A6 

apply. 

10. In areas posted ‘‘Area Closed’’ or 

‘‘No Hunting Zone,’’ we prohibit big 

game hunting at any time. We close 

‘‘Closed Areas’’ (designated on the 

Public Use Regulations brochure map) 

to all hunts. We prohibit shooting into 

or across any closed area with a gun or 

archery equipment. 

11. We allow muzzleloader hunters to 

discharge their primitive firearms at the 

end of each hunt safely into the ground 

at least 150 feet (135 meters) from any 

designated public road, maintained 

road, trail, fire break, dwelling, or 

above-ground oil and gas production 

facility. We define a maintained road or 

trail as one that has been mowed, 

disked, or plowed, or one that is free of 

trees. 

12. We prohibit deer hunters leaving 

deer stands unattended before the 

opening day of the refuge archery 

season. Hunters must remove stands by 

the end of the last day of the refuge 

archery season (see § 27.93 of this 

chapter). Hunters must clearly mark 

stands left unattended on the refuge 

with the name and address of the stand 

owner. Hunters must remove portable 

stands from trees daily and place 

freestanding stands in a nonhunting 

position when unattended. 

13. We allow hunting with slugs, rifle, 

or pistol ammunition larger than .22 

caliber rimfire only during the quota 

hunts for deer. We prohibit use of 

buckshot when hunting. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow anglers to enter the refuge 

no earlier than 4 a.m., and they must 

depart no later than 2 hours after legal 

sunset. 

2. We prohibit the taking of turtle (see 

§ 27.21 of this chapter). 

3. Condition A4 applies. 

4. We prohibit fish cleaning within 

150 feet (45 meters) of parking areas, 

maintained roads, and trails. 

* * * * * 

■ 13. Amend § 32.38 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Moosehorn 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A, B, and C.1; 

■ ii. Removing paragraph C.3; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs C.4 and 

C.6 as paragraphs C.3 and C.4, 

respectively; 

■ iv. Revising paragraph C.5; 

■ v. Redesignating paragraph C.11 as 

paragraph C.6; 

■ vi. Removing paragraph C.7; 

■ vii. Redesignating paragraph C.12 as 

paragraph C.7; 

■ viii. Revising paragraphs C.8, C.9, and 

C.10; 

■ ix. Adding new paragraph C.11; and 

■ x. Removing paragraphs C.13, C.14, 

and C.15; 

■ b. Under the entry Petit Manan 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph A.2; 

■ ii. Removing paragraph A.3; 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs B.1, B.2, and 

B.5; 

■ iv. Adding new paragraph B.6; 

■ v. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph C, and paragraphs C.1, C.2, 

and C.4; and 

■ vi. Removing paragraph C.5; 

■ c. Revising the entry Rachel Carson 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Sunkhaze 

Meadows National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ e. Revising the entry Umbagog 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The additions and revisions read as 

follows: 

§ 32.38 Maine. 

* * * * * 

Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, American 

woodcock, and snipe on designated 

areas of the Baring and Edmunds 

Division of the refuge in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We require every hunter to possess 

and carry a personally signed Migratory 

Bird Hunt Application (FWS Form 3– 

2357). Permits and information are 

available from the refuge. 

2. We allow hunters to enter the 

refuge 2 hours before legal shooting 

hours, and they must exit the refuge by 

1 hour past legal shooting hours. 

3. You may hunt American woodcock 

and snipe on the Edmunds Division and 

that part of the Baring Division that lies 

west of State Route 191. 

4. You may hunt waterfowl (duck and 

goose) in that part of the Edmunds 

Division that lies north of Hobart Stream 

and west of U.S. Route 1, and in those 

areas east of U.S. Route 1, and refuge 

lands that lie south of South Trail; and 

in that portion of the Baring Division 

that lies west of State Route 191. 

5. We prohibit hunting waterfowl in 

the Nat Smith Field and Marsh or Bills 

Hill Field or Ponds on the Edmunds 

Division. 

6. We only allow portable or 

temporary blinds and decoys that must 

be removed from the refuge following 

each day’s hunt. We prohibit 

construction or use of any permanent 

blind. 

7. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting woodcock 

and snipe on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

8. We prohibit use of motorized or 

mechanized vehicles and equipment in 

designated Wilderness Areas. This 

includes all vehicles and items such as 

winches, pulleys, and wheeled game 

carriers. You must remove animals 

harvested within the Wilderness Areas 

by hand without the aid of mechanical 

equipment of any type. 

9. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of ruffed grouse, snowshoe 

hare, red fox, gray and red squirrel, 

raccoon, skunk, and woodchuck on 

designated areas of the Edmunds 

Division and that part of the Baring 

Division that lies west of State Route 

191 in accordance with State regulations 

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1. We require every hunter to possess 

and carry a personally signed Big/ 

Upland Game Hunt Application (FWS 

Form 3–2356). Permits and regulations 

are available from the refuge. 

2. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

3. We prohibit use of motorized or 

mechanized vehicles and equipment in 

designated Wilderness Areas. This 

includes all vehicles and items such as 

winches, pulleys, and wheeled game 

carriers. You must remove animals 

harvested within the Wilderness Areas 

by hand without the aid of mechanical 

equipment of any type. 

4. We allow hunters to enter the 

refuge 2 hours before legal shooting 

hours, and they must exit the refuge by 

1 hour past legal shooting hours, except 

for hunters pursuing raccoons at night. 

5. We prohibit hunting of upland 

game species on refuge lands between 

April 1 and September 30. 

6. You must notify the refuge office 

prior to hunting raccoon or red fox with 

trailing dogs. 

7. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

C. * * * 

1. Conditions B1 and B3 apply. 

* * * * * 

5. We allow portable tree stands, 

blinds, and ladders. You must clearly 

label any tree stand, blind, or ladder left 

on the refuge overnight with your name, 

address, phone number, and hunting 

license number. We require all tree 

stands, blinds, and ladders to be 

removed from the refuge on the last day 

of the muzzleloader deer season. We 

prohibit construction or use of 

permanent tree stands, blinds, or 

ladders. 

* * * * * 

8. We prohibit use of firearms to hunt 

bear and coyote during the archery deer 

season on that part of the Baring 

Division that lies east of Route 191. We 

prohibit the use of firearms, other than 

a muzzleloader, to hunt coyote during 

the deer muzzleloader season on that 

part of the Baring Division that lies east 

of Route 191. 

9. You must notify the refuge office 

prior to hunting black bear, bobcat, or 

eastern coyote with trailing dogs. 

10. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

11. We prohibit hunting in the 

following areas: 

i. The South Magurrewock Area. 

ii. The North Magurrewock Area. 

iii. The posted safety zone around the 

refuge headquarters. 

iv. The Southern Gravel Pit. 

* * * * * 

Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

2. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting woodcock 

and snipe (see § 32.2(k)). 

B. * * * 

1. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

2. We allow the use of dogs for 

hunting; however, the dogs must be 

under the hunter’s control at all times. 

* * * * * 

5. Hunters must retrieve all species, 

including coyotes, harvested on the 

refuge. 

6. We prohibit night hunting from 1⁄2

hour after legal sunset until 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise the following day. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and black 

bear on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow white-tailed deer hunting 

on Sawyers Marsh and Gouldsboro Bay 

Divisions, Bois Bubert Island, and 

designated areas of the Petit Manan 

Point. Petit Manan Point is open only 

during the State-prescribed 

muzzleloader season. 

2. We allow black bear hunting on the 

Sawyers Marsh and Gouldsboro Bay 

Divisions during the firearm season for 

white-tailed deer. 

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4. We allow hunters to enter the 

refuge 1 hour prior to legal sunrise and 

remain on the refuge 1 hour after legal 

sunset. 

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Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

woodcock, and snipe in accordance 

with State regulations on designated 

areas of the Brave Boat Harbor, Lower 

Wells, Upper Wells, Mousam River, 

Goose Rocks, and Spurwink River 

Divisions of the refuge and subject to 

the following conditions: 

1. Prior to entering designated refuge 

hunting areas, you must obtain a 

Migratory Bird Hunt Application (FWS 

Form 3–2357), pay a recreation fee, and 

sign and carry the permit at all times. 

2. We open Designated Youth Hunting 

Areas to hunters age 15 and younger 

who possess and carry a refuge hunting 

permit. Youth hunters must be 

accompanied by an adult age 18 or 

older. The accompanying adult must 

possess and carry a refuge hunting 

permit and may also hunt. 

3. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shot for hunting woodcock and 

snipe on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

4. You may use seasonal blinds with 

a Special Use Permit (FWS Form 3– 

1383–G). A permitted seasonal blind is 

available to permitted hunters on a firstcome, first-served basis. The permit 

holder for the blind is responsible for 

the removal of the blind at the end of 

the season and compliance with all 

conditions of the Special Use Permit. 

5. We close the Moody, Little River, 

Biddeford Pool, and Goosefare Brook 

divisions of the refuge to all migratory 

bird hunting. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, quail, and grouse 

on designated areas of the Brave Boat 

Harbor, Lower Wells, Upper Wells, 

Mousam River, Goose Rocks, Goosefare 

Brook, Spurwink River, and York River 

divisions of the refuge in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A5 apply. 

2. For upland game, you may only 

take pheasant, quail, and grouse (no 

mammals) by falconry on the refuge 

during State seasons. 

3. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shot for hunting upland game 

on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

4. We close the Moody, Little River, 

and Biddeford Pool divisions of the 

refuge to all upland game hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the Brave Boat 

Harbor, Lower Wells, Upper Wells, 

Mousam River, Goose Rocks, Little 

River, Goosefare Brook, and Spurwink 

River divisions of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Prior to entering designated refuge 

hunting areas, you must obtain a Big/ 

Upland Game Hunt Application (FWS 

Form 3–2356), pay a recreation fee, and 

sign and carry the permit at all times. 

2. Condition A5 applies. 

3. We allow hunting of deer and 

turkey with shotgun and archery only. 

We prohibit rifles and muzzleloading 

firearms for hunting. 

4. We allow turkey hunting during the 

fall season only, as designated by the 

State. 

5. We close the Moody and Biddeford 

Pool divisions of the refuge to whitetailed deer and turkey hunting. 

6. We allow archery on only those 

areas of the Little River division open to 

hunting. 

7. We allow hunting of fox and coyote 

with archery or shotgun with a refuge 

big game permit, during State firearm 

deer season. We prohibit night hunting 

from 1⁄2 hour after sunset until 1⁄2 hour 

before sunrise the following day. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

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in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow sport fishing along the 

shoreline on the following areas of the 

refuge: 

i. At the Brave Boat Harbor division 

on the north side (York) of the stream 

crossing under Route 103, beginning at 

Route 103 then downstream to the first 

railroad trestle. 

ii. At the Moody division on the north 

side of the Ogunquit River and 

downstream of Route 1, beginning at the 

refuge boundary then downstream a 

distance of 500 feet (150 meters). 

iii. At the Moody division on the east 

side of Stevens Brook and downstream 

of Bourne Avenue, beginning at Bourne 

Avenue then downstream to where the 

refuge ends near Ocean Avenue. 

iv. At the Lower Wells division on the 

west side of the Webhannet River 

downstream of Mile Road, from Mile 

Road north to the first creek. 

v. At the Upper Wells division on the 

south side of the Merriland River 

downstream of Skinner Mill Road, 

beginning at the refuge boundary and 

then east along the oxbow to the woods. 

vi. At the Mousam River division on 

the north side of the Mousam River 

downstream of Route 9, beginning at the 

refuge boundary and then east to a point 

opposite Great Hill Road. Access is from 

the Bridle Path along the first tidal 

creek. 

vii. At the Goosefare Brook division 

on the south side of Goosefare Brook 

where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. 

viii. At the Spurwink River division 

on the west side (Scarborough) of the 

Spurwink River upstream of Route 77, 

beginning at Route 77 and then 

upstream approximately 1,000 feet (300 

meters) to a point near the fork in the 

river. 

2. We allow car-top launching from 

legal sunrise to legal sunset on the 

following areas of the refuge: 

i. At Brave Boat Harbor division on 

Chauncey Creek at the intersection of 

Cutts Island Road and Sea Point Road. 

ii. At Little River division at the end 

of Granite Point Road into the Little 

River. 

iii. At Spurwink River division on the 

upstream side of Route 77 at the old 

road crossing. 

3. We allow fishing from legal sunrise 

to legal sunset. 

4. We prohibit lead jigs and sinkers. 

5. We prohibit collection of bait on 

the refuge. 

Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on all areas of the refuge, including 

Sunkhaze Meadows Unit in Milford, 

Carlton Pond Waterfowl Production 

Area in Troy, Benton Unit in Benton, 

and Sandy Stream Unit in Unity in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting crow, 

woodcock, and snipe on the refuge (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

2. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of upland game on all areas of 

the refuge, including Sunkhaze 

Meadows Unit in Milford, Carlton Pond 

Waterfowl Production Area in Troy, 

Benton Unit in Benton, and Sandy 

Stream Unit in Unity in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

2. We allow eastern coyote hunting 

from October 1 to March 31. 

3. We allow hunters to enter the 

refuge 1 hour before legal shooting 

hours and they must exit the refuge by 

1 hour past legal shooting hours, except 

for hunters pursuing raccoons and 

coyotes at night. 

4. The hunter must retrieve all 

species, including coyotes, harvested on 

the refuge. 

5. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of black bear, bobcat, moose, 

and white-tailed deer on all areas of the 

refuge, including Sunkhaze Meadows 

Unit in Milford, Carlton Pond 

Waterfowl Production Area in Troy, 

Benton Unit in Benton, and Sandy 

Stream Unit in Unity in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow hunters to enter the 

refuge 1 hour before legal shooting 

hours and they must exit the refuge by 

1 hour past legal shooting hours. 

2. We allow portable tree stands, 

blinds, and ladders. You must clearly 

label any tree stand, blind, or ladder left 

on the refuge overnight with your name, 

address, phone number, and hunting 

license number. We require all tree 

stands, blinds, and ladders to be 

removed from the refuge on the last day 

of the muzzleloader deer season. We 

prohibit construction or use of 

permanent tree stands, blinds, or 

ladders. 

3. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow fishing on the waters of 

and from the banks of Baker Brook, 

Birch Stream, Buzzy Brook, Dudley 

Brook, Johnson Brook, Little Birch 

Stream, Little Buzzy Brook, Sandy 

Stream, and Sunkhaze Stream. 

2. We prohibit trapping of bait fish on 

the refuge. 

Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, snipe, 

coot, crow, and woodcock in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Hunters must remove temporary 

blinds, boats, and decoys from the 

refuge following each day’s hunt (see 

§ 27.93 of this chapter). 

2. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

3. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting snipe, 

crow, and woodcock on the refuge (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of fox, raccoon, woodchuck, 

squirrel, porcupine, skunk, snowshoe 

hare, ring-necked pheasant, and ruffed 

grouse in accordance with State 

regulations, seasons, and bag limits, and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit night hunting from 1⁄2

hour after legal sunset until 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise the following day. 

2. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

3. Condition A2 applies. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of bear, white-tailed deer, 

coyote, wild turkey, and moose in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit night hunting from 1⁄2

hour after legal sunset until 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise the following day. 

2. Condition A2 applies. 

3. Hunters must retrieve all species, 

including coyotes, harvested on the 

refuge. 

4. We allow temporary blinds and tree 

stands that are clearly marked with the 

owner’s name and address. Temporary 

blinds and tree stands may be erected 

no earlier than 14 days prior to the 

hunting season and must be removed 

within 14 days after the hunting season. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

■ 14. Revise § 32.39 to read as follows: 

§ 32.39 Maryland. 

The following refuge units have been 

opened for hunting and/or fishing, and 

are listed in alphabetical order with 

applicable refuge-specific regulations. 

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

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designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You must obtain a refuge waterfowl 

hunting permit (signed brochure) by 

signing the corresponding season’s 

refuge waterfowl hunting brochure in 

ink. You must abide by the terms and 

conditions outlined in the ‘‘Blackwater 

NWR Waterfowl Hunting Brochure’’ (see 

§ 32.2(e) of this chapter). This brochure 

contains seasons, bag limits, methods of 

hunting, maps depicting areas open to 

hunting, hunt unit reservation 

procedures, and the terms and 

conditions under which we issue 

hunting permits. They are available at 

the refuge visitor center and on the 

refuge’s website. 

2. Up to three additional hunters may 

accompany you on your reserved unit. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow the 

hunting of white-tailed and sika deer 

and turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. General Hunt Regulations. 

i. You must obtain a deer or turkey 

hunting permit (Big/Upland Game Hunt 

Application, FWS Form 3–2356 or 

Quota Deer Hunt Application, FWS 

Form 3–2354). 

ii. We prohibit organized deer drives, 

unless otherwise authorized by the 

refuge manager on designated hunt 

days. 

iii. We prohibit shooting a projectile 

from a firearm, muzzleloader, bow, or 

crossbow from, down, or across any 

refuge road. A refuge road is any road 

that is traveled by vehicular traffic. 

iv. We prohibit leaving deer or turkey 

entrails or other waste within 50 feet 

(15.2 meters) of any road, parking area, 

trail, or refuge structure on the refuge. 

v. You must check all deer harvested 

at the refuge-sponsored check station 

during hunt days when the refugesponsored check station is open. If you 

fail to check deer during operation 

hours of the check station, you must 

notify the hunt coordinator by 12 p.m. 

(noon) on the day after your kill. 

vi. You must adhere to the bag limits 

set forth annually in the brochure. Deer 

harvested on the refuge do not count 

toward State bag limits but must be 

recorded and checked with the State. 

Deer harvested on the refuge must be 

checked pursuant to the refuge hunt in 

which they are taken, regardless of the 

weapon used or corresponding State 

season. 

vii. We prohibit the use of rimfire or 

centerfire rifles and all handguns, 

including muzzleloading pistols, for 

hunting. 

2. Archery Deer Hunt. We do not 

allow archery hunters to hunt within 

areas designated for the youth hunt on 

designated days. 

3. Turkey Hunt. We allow turkey hunt 

permit holders to have an assistant, who 

must remain within sight and normal 

voice contact. 

4. Youth Deer and Turkey Hunt. 

i. We allow youth hunters to hunt on 

designated areas on designated days 

(Youth Hunt) if they meet the criteria of 

a ‘‘youth hunter’’ as defined by State 

law. 

ii. Deer taken during youth days do 

not count toward the State bag limit and 

are in addition to any other deer taken 

during any other hunts on the refuge. 

5. Designated Disabled Hunt. 

i. Disabled hunters are required to 

have their Federal Government Access 

pass (OMB Control 1024–0252) in their 

possession while hunting in disabled 

areas. 

ii. Disabled hunters may have an 

assistant, age 18 or older, who must 

remain within sight and normal voice 

contact while hunting. Assistants must 

possess a valid refuge hunt brochure 

(permit), signed in ink, and a valid 

government-issued photo identification. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and crabbing on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing and crabbing only 

from April 1 through September 30 

during daylight hours in refuge waters, 

unless otherwise authorized by the 

refuge manager. 

2. We allow only fishing and crabbing 

in the Big Blackwater and the Little 

Blackwater River by boat and from 

designated areas listed in the refuge 

fishing brochure. 

3. We prohibit boat launching from 

refuge lands except from the car-top 

boat launch located near the Blackwater 

River Bridge on Route 335. Only canoes, 

kayaks, and small jon boats under 17 

feet are considered car-top boats. 

4. We prohibit the use of airboats on 

refuge waters. 

Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State hunting 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. General Hunt Regulations. 

i. You must obtain a deer or turkey 

hunting permit (Big/Upland Game Hunt 

Application, FWS Form 3–2356). 

Hunting brochures contain hunting 

application procedures, seasons, bag 

limits, methods of hunting, maps 

depicting areas open to hunting, and the 

terms and conditions under which we 

issue hunting permits. 

ii. We prohibit shooting a projectile 

from a firearm, muzzleloader, bow, or 

crossbow from, down, or across any 

refuge road. A refuge road is any road 

that is traveled by vehicular traffic. 

iii. We prohibit leaving deer entrails 

or other waste within 50 feet (15.2 

meters) of any refuge road, trail, parking 

area, or structure. 

iv. We prohibit the use of rimfire or 

centerfire rifles and all handguns, 

including muzzleloading pistols, for 

hunting. 

2. Youth Deer Hunt. We allow hunters 

to hunt on designated areas on 

designated days (Youth Hunt) if they 

meet the criteria of a ‘‘youth hunter’’ as 

defined by State law. 

3. Designated Disabled Hunt. 

i. All disabled hunters must possess a 

Federal Government Access pass (OMB 

Control 1024–0252). Disabled hunters 

are required to have their Federal 

Government Access pass (OMB Control 

1024–0252) in their possession while 

hunting in disabled areas. 

ii. Disabled hunters may have an 

assistant who must be age 18 or older 

and remain within sight and normal 

voice contact. Assistants must possess a 

valid refuge hunt brochure (permit), 

signed in ink, and a valid governmentissued photo identification. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and crabbing in designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing and crabbing from 

designated shoreline areas located at the 

Ingleside Recreation Area from legal 

sunrise to legal sunset, April 1 through 

September 30. 

2. We allow fishing from designated 

shoreline areas located at the Chester 

River end of Boxes Point and Duck Inn 

Trails from legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

3. We prohibit boat launching from 

refuge lands except for canoes/kayaks at 

the canoe/kayak ramp located at the 

Ingleside Recreation Area. 

Patuxent Research Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, and dove 

on the North Tract in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We require a Refuge Hunt 

Application (PRR Hunt Form #1). 

2. Goose, duck, and dove hunting is 

suspended during the muzzleloader and 

firearms seasons, with the exceptions 


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that waterfowl hunting will remain 

open during the 2-day January firearms 

season and during the early 

muzzleloader season, and waterfowl 

hunters are restricted to hunting only 

Blue Heron Pond, Lake Allen, and 

Area Z. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of gray squirrel, eastern 

cottontail rabbit, and woodchuck on the 

North Tract in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot while hunting in the field 

(see § 32.2(k)), except for the use of .22- 

caliber rimfire rifles during the months 

of December and January only to hunt 

squirrel. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of turkey on North Tract only 

and white-tailed deer on the North, 

Central, and South Tracts in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We require turkey hunters to use 

#4, #5, or #6 nontoxic shot; vertical 

bows; or crossbows. 

3. We prohibit deer drives or anyone 

taking part in any deer drive. We define 

a ‘‘deer drive’’ as an organized or 

planned effort to pursue, drive, chase, or 

otherwise frighten or cause deer to move 

in the direction of any person(s) who is 

part of the organized or planned hunt 

and known to be waiting for the deer. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing in accordance with State hook 

and line fishing regulations and subject 

to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit the use and/or 

possession of lead sinkers. 

2. We allow the use of earthworms as 

the only source of live bait. We prohibit 

bloodworms, fish, or other animals or 

parts of animals to be used as bait. 

3. Anglers may take the following 

species: Chain pickerel, catfish, golden 

shiner, eel, and sunfish (includes 

bluegill, black crappie, warmouth, and 

pumpkinseed). Maryland State daily 

harvest limits apply unless otherwise 

noted. We allow take of one chain 

pickerel per day. 

4. We prohibit the use of any type of 

watercraft on North Tract. 

■ 15. Amend § 32.40 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Assabet River 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ b. Revising the entry Great Meadows 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Nantucket 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Oxbow National 

Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ e. Revising the entry Parker River 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.40 Massachusetts. 

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Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of woodcock on 

designated portions of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow woodcock hunting within 

the portions of the refuge located north 

of Hudson Road, except those areas 

north of Hudson Road that are 

designated as ‘‘archery only’’ hunting as 

shown on the current refuge hunting 

map. Hunters must obtain and possess 

a refuge-specific hunting permit to hunt 

woodcock on the refuge. 

2. You may begin scouting hunting 

areas 4 weeks prior to the opening day 

of your permitted season. We require 

possession of valid refuge hunting 

permits while scouting. 

3. We prohibit the training of dogs on 

the refuge. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of upland game on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow shotgun hunting for 

ruffed grouse, cottontail rabbit, and gray 

squirrel within those portions of the 

refuge located north of Hudson Road, 

except those areas north of Hudson 

Road designated as ‘‘archery only’’ 

hunting as shown on the current refuge 

hunting map. 

2. Hunters must obtain and possess a 

refuge-specific hunting permit to hunt 

designated upland game on the refuge. 

3. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot while hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow shotgun and 

muzzleloader hunting of white-tailed 

deer, as well as shotgun hunting of 

turkey, within the portions of the refuge 

located north of Hudson Road, except 

those areas north of Hudson Road that 

are designated as ‘‘archery only’’ 

hunting as shown on the current refuge 

hunting map. 

2. We allow archery deer and archery 

turkey hunting within all portions of the 

refuge during the hunting seasons for 

these species. 

3. Hunters must obtain and possess a 

refuge-specific hunting permit to hunt 

deer and turkey on the refuge. 

4. You may begin scouting hunting 

areas 4 weeks prior to the opening day 

of your permitted season. We require 

possession of valid refuge hunting 

permits while scouting. 

5. We prohibit driving deer by any 

means on the refuge. 

6. One nonhunting companion may 

accompany each permitted hunter. We 

prohibit nonhunting companions from 

hunting, but they may assist in other 

means. All companions must carry 

identification and stay with the hunter. 

7. You may use temporary tree stands 

and/or ground blinds while engaged in 

hunting deer during the applicable 

archery, shotgun, or muzzleloader deer 

seasons or while hunting turkey. We 

allow hunters to keep one tree stand or 

ground blind on each refuge during the 

permitted season. 

Hunters must mark ground blinds 

with the hunter’s permit number. 

Hunters must mark tree stands with the 

hunter’s permit number in such a 

fashion that all numbers are visible from 

the ground. Hunters must remove all 

temporary tree stands and ground blinds 

by the 15th day after the end of the 

hunter’s permitted season. 

D. We allow sport fishing in Puffer 

Pond in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing from designated 

locations on the banks of Puffer Pond. 

We prohibit the use of motorized and 

nonmotorized boats on Puffer Pond. 

2. We allow catch and release fishing 

only. 

3. We allow the use of live bait with 

the exception of any amphibians or 

reptiles (frogs, salamanders, etc.) 

4. We prohibit ice fishing on the 

refuge except for special refuge events. 

Great Meadows National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of ducks and geese on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

prohibit the training of dogs on the 

refuge. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

archery hunting of whitetail deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow archery hunting of 

whitetail deer within the portions of the 

Concord Unit of the refuge that are 

located north of Massachusetts Route 

225. We also allow archery hunting of 

whitetail deer within the portions of the 

Sudbury Unit of the refuge that are 

located north of Stonebridge Road in 

Wayland, Massachusetts, and south of 

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on the Sudbury and Wayland Town 

Line. Hunters must obtain and possess 

a valid refuge hunting permit to hunt 

deer on the refuge. 

2. We prohibit the use of firearms for 

hunting deer on the refuge. 

3. Hunters may begin scouting 

hunting areas beginning 4 weeks prior 

to the opening day of their permitted 

season. We require possession of valid 

refuge hunting permits while scouting. 

We prohibit the use of dogs during 

scouting. 

4. We allow one nonhunting 

companion to accompany each 

permitted hunter. We prohibit 

nonhunting companions from hunting, 

but they can assist in other means. All 

companions must carry identification 

and stay with the hunter. 

5. We prohibit driving deer by any 

means on the refuge. 

6. You may use temporary tree stands 

and/or ground blinds while engaged in 

hunting deer during the applicable 

archery season. We allow hunters to 

keep one tree stand or ground blind on 

each refuge during the permitted season. 

Hunters must mark ground blinds with 

their permit number. Hunters must 

mark tree stands with their permit 

number in such a fashion that all 

numbers are visible from the ground. 

Hunters must remove all temporary tree 

stands and ground blinds by the 15th 

day after the end of the permitted deer 

season. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing in designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following condition: 

We allow fishing along the main 

channels of the Concord and Sudbury 

Rivers and from designated banks of 

Heard Pond. 

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Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We may close the refuge shoreline 

and beach area to surf fishing and oversand vehicle use during varying times of 

the year based on biological needs and 

beach conditions. Seasonal closures are 

delineated with posted signs. 

2. We require a permit obtained from 

the Trustees of Reservations for the use 

of over-sand vehicles on the refuge. 

Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl, woodcock, 

and common snipe on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow waterfowl and common 

snipe hunting within the portions of the 

refuge located south of Massachusetts 

Route 2 and west of Tank Road. 

2. We allow woodcock hunting within 

the portions of the refuge south of 

Massachusetts Route 2 and west of the 

B&M railroad tracks; north of 

Massachusetts Route 2 and south of 

Hospital Road; and within the portions 

of the refuge along the westerly side of 

the Nashua River located north of the 

commuter rail tracks in Shirley, 

Massachusetts. Hunters must obtain and 

possess a refuge-specific hunting permit 

to hunt woodcock on the refuge. 

3. Hunters may begin scouting 

hunting areas 4 weeks prior to the 

opening day of your permitted season. 

We require possession of valid refuge 

hunting permits while scouting. We 

prohibit the use of dogs during scouting. 

4. We prohibit the training of dogs on 

the refuge. 

5. One nonhunting companion may 

accompany each permitted hunter. We 

prohibit nonhunting companions from 

hunting, but they can assist in other 

means. All companions must carry 

identification and stay with the hunter. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

upland game hunting on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow shotgun hunting of ruffed 

grouse, cottontail rabbit, and gray 

squirrels within the areas of the refuge 

located south of Massachusetts Route 2 

and west of the B&M railroad tracks; 

north of Massachusetts Route 2 and 

south of Hospital Road; and within the 

portions of the refuge along the westerly 

side of the Nashua River located north 

of the commuter rail tracks in Shirley, 

Massachusetts. Hunters must obtain and 

possess a refuge-specific hunting permit 

to hunt upland game on the refuge. 

2. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot while hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow shotgun, archery, and 

muzzleloader hunting of white-tailed 

deer, as well as shotgun and archery 

hunting of turkey, within the portions of 

the refuge located south of 

Massachusetts Route 2 and west of the 

B&M railroad tracks. 

2. We allow archery deer and archery 

turkey hunting within the portions of 

the refuge located south of 

Massachusetts Route 2 and east of the 

B&M railroad tracks, and within the 

portions of the refuge along the easterly 

side of the Nashua River located north 

of the commuter rail tracks in Ayer, 

Massachusetts. 

3. We allow archery deer hunting as 

well as shotgun and archery turkey 

hunting within the portions of the 

refuge located north of Massachusetts 

Route 2 and south of Hospital Road, and 

within the portions of the refuge along 

the westerly side of the Nashua River 

located north of the commuter rail 

tracks in Shirley, Massachusetts. 

4. Hunters must obtain and possess a 

refuge-specific hunting permit to hunt 

deer and turkey on the refuge. 

5. Hunters may begin scouting 

hunting areas 4 weeks prior to the 

opening day of your permitted season. 

We require possession of valid refuge 

hunting permits while scouting. We 

prohibit the use of dogs during scouting. 

6. One nonhunting companion may 

accompany each permitted hunter. We 

prohibit nonhunting companions from 

hunting, but they can assist in other 

means. All companions must carry 

identification and stay with the hunter. 

7. We prohibit driving deer by any 

means on the refuge. 

8. Hunters may use temporary tree 

stands and/or ground blinds while 

engaged in hunting deer during the 

applicable archery, shotgun, or 

muzzleloader deer seasons or while 

hunting turkey. We allow hunters to 

keep one tree stand or ground blind on 

each refuge during the permitted season. 

Hunters must mark ground blinds with 

their permit number. Hunters must 

mark tree stands with their permit 

number in such a fashion that all 

numbers are visible from the ground. 

Hunters must remove all temporary tree 

stands and ground blinds by the 15th 

day after the end of the permitted 

season. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing along the Nashua River in 

accordance with State regulations. 

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting in designated areas for 

waterfowl in accordance with Federal 

and State hunting regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the Plum Island 

portion of the refuge in accordance with 

Federal, State, and local hunting 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: We require hunters to obtain 

and possess a refuge deer hunting 

permit, issued pursuant to an annual 

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D. Sport Fishing. We allow saltwater 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow saltwater fishing on the 

ocean beach and the surrounding waters 

of the Broad Sound with the following 

conditions: 

i. We prohibit fishing during closures. 

ii. We allow persons using refuge 

fishing areas access from legal sunrise to 

legal sunset without a refuge permit. 

They are, however, subject to entrance 

fee requirements. 

iii. Nelson Island is open to fishing 

from legal sunrise to legal sunset, except 

during waterfowl seasons, or other 

closures. We limit access to the trail, 

and fishing within 100 feet (30 meters) 

on either side of the trail at the 

shoreline of Broad Sound. 

iv. The south-facing shoreline of Stage 

Island is open to fishing. Access to the 

fishing area is permitted from the 

refuge’s Stage Island Trail, as well as 

Sandy Point State Reservation, along the 

shoreline below mean high tide to a 

point 250 feet (73 meters) beyond the 

terminus, or most western point, of the 

Stage Island peninsula known as 

Ipswich Bluff. 

2. We allow walk-on night fishing 

after legal sunset with the following 

conditions: 

i. Anglers must enter the refuge 

through the entrance gate, pay an 

entrance fee, and arrive prior to legal 

sunset. 

ii. We require a valid refuge permit 

(vehicle sticker issued by the refuge 

office) and permit fee for walk-on night 

fishing. 

3. We allow anglers to use over-thesand, surf-fishing vehicles (ORVs) with 

the following conditions: 

i. Anglers must enter the refuge 

through the entrance gate, pay an 

entrance fee, and arrive prior to legal 

sunset. 

ii. We require a valid refuge permit 

and permit fee for persons wishing 

access to the refuge beach with ORVs as 

determined in an annual lottery. Driveon information, as provided in the 

‘‘Parker River National Wildlife Refuge 

Drive-on Surf Fishing Information’’ 

sheet, will be in effect. 

* * * * * 

■ 16. Amend § 32.41 by revising the 

entry Shiawassee National Wildlife 

Refuge to read as follows: 

§ 32.41 Michigan. 

* * * * * 

Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl (ducks and 

geese), American coot, common 

gallinule, sora, Virginia rail, and 

Wilson’s snipe on designated areas in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a 

refuge permit. 

2. We allow waterfowl hunting on 

Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays, and 

Thursdays during regular goose season 

after September 30. 

3. We allow hunter access 11⁄2 hours 

before legal shooting time. 

4. We allow hunters to shoot 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise until 12:00 p.m. 

(noon). 

5. You may possess no more than 25 

shotgun shells while hunting in the 

field. 

6. We allow hunting with dogs. 

7. We allow the take of feral hogs 

incidental to other lawful hunting using 

legal methods of take. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of turkey, small game (eastern 

fox squirrel, eastern cottontail, ringnecked pheasant, American woodcock, 

and American crow), and furbearers 

(raccoon, coyote, and red fox) on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A6 applies. 

2. You may only hunt turkey during 

spring season. 

3. We allow hunter access for spring 

wild turkey season from 11⁄2 hour before 

legal shooting time. 

4. We allow hunter access for small 

game from 1⁄2 hour before legal shooting 

time to 1⁄2 hour after legal shooting time. 

5. We allow hunting with dogs, but 

we prohibit training of dogs. Raccoon 

hunting dogs must wear GPS or radio 

collars. 

6. You may only hunt furbearers from 1⁄2 hour before legal sunrise to 1⁄2 hour 

after legal sunset. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A6 applies. 

2. You must possess and carry a 

refuge permit. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow fishing by boat in 

navigable waterways but not within any 

managed refuge units. 

2. We allow bank fishing from legal 

sunrise to legal sunset only at 

designated sites along the Tittabawassee 

and Cass Rivers. 

■ 17. Amend § 32.42 by revising the 

entry Glacial Ridge National Wildlife 

Refuge to read as follows: 

§ 32.42 Minnesota. 

* * * * * 

Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, coot, 

woodcock, snipe, rail, and mourning 

dove on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit the use of motorized 

boats. We allow nonmotorized boats in 

areas open to migratory bird hunting 

during the migratory bird hunting 

seasons. 

2. For hunting, you may use or 

possess only approved nontoxic shot 

shells while in the field, including shot 

shells used for hunting wild turkey (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

3. We prohibit hunting during the 

Spring Light Goose Conservation Order. 

4. We allow hunting during special 

State-administered youth seasons. 

5. We allow the use of hunting dogs, 

provided the dog is under the 

immediate control of the hunter at all 

times. 

6. We allow the use of wheeled, 

nonmotorized conveyance devices (e.g., 

bikes, game carts). 

7. We prohibit entry onto the refuge 

earlier than 2 hours before legal 

shooting time and require hunters to 

leave the refuge no later than 2 hours 

after legal shooting time. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of prairie chicken, sharp-tailed 

grouse, ring-necked pheasant, gray 

(Hungarian) partridge, ruffed grouse, 

rabbit (cottontail and jack), snowshoe 

hare, squirrel (fox and gray), and wild 

turkey on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following condition: 

Conditions A2, A5, A6, and A7 apply. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit shooting from, across, 

or within 30 feet (9 meters) of a road 

edge open to public vehicle 

transportation. 

2. Conditions A2, A4, A6, and A7 

apply. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

■ 18. Amend § 32.45 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Benton Lake 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising the entry Benton Lake 

Wetland Management District; 

■ c. Revising paragraphs A and B in the 

entry Bowdoin National Wildlife 

Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Bowdoin 

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■ e. Revising the entry Creedman 

Coulee National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ f. Revising the entry Lake Mason 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ g. Revising the entry Lake Thibadeau 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ h. Revising the entry Lamesteer 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ i. Revising the entry Swan River 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ j. Revising the entry UL Bend National 

Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ k. Revising the entry War Horse 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.45 Montana. 

* * * * * 

Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, swan, and 

coot in designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow hunters to enter and 

remain in open hunting areas 2 hours 

before legal sunrise until 2 hours after 

legal sunset. 

2. We allow hunting with the opening 

of waterfowl season and close hunting 

at the end of waterfowl season. 

3. We allow hunting during a youthonly, special waterfowl hunt in 

accordance with State regulations. 

4. Hunters with a documented 

mobility disability may reserve an 

accessible blind in advance by 

contacting the refuge office. 

5. We only allow nonmotorized boats 

on refuge waters. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, sharp-tailed 

grouse, and gray partridge in designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We allow hunting during a youthonly, special pheasant hunt in 

accordance with State regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. Anglers may sport 

fish on designated areas of the refuge as 

posted by signs. 

Benton Lake Wetland Management 

District 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow migratory game bird hunting on 

Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) 

throughout the District, excluding Sands 

WPA in Hill County and H2–0 WPA in 

Powell County, in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: We prohibit the use of 

motorboats. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

the hunting of coyotes, skunks, red fox, 

raccoons, hares, rabbits, and tree 

squirrels on WPAs throughout the 

District, excluding Sands WPA in Hill 

County and H2–0 WPA in Powell 

County, in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Hunters may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot (see § 32.2(k)). 

2. We prohibit the use of horses for 

any purposes. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow big 

game hunting on WPAs throughout the 

District, excluding Sands WPA in Hill 

County and H2–0 WPA in Powell 

County, in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: Condition B2 applies. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on WPAs throughout the District 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following condition: 

We prohibit the use of motorboats. 

* * * * * 

Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

swan, sandhill crane, and mourning 

dove on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following condition: 

We prohibit the use of air-thrust boats 

or boats with motors greater than 25 

horsepower. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, sharp-tailed 

grouse, sage grouse, gray partridge, fox, 

and coyote on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a 

refuge Special Use Permit (FWS Form 

3–1383–G) to hunt fox and coyotes. 

2. Fox and coyote hunters may only 

use centerfire rifles, rimfire rifles, or 

shotguns with approved nontoxic shot. 

3. Any person hunting or 

accompanying a hunter must wear a 

minimum of 400 square inches of 

hunter orange (fluorescent) material 

above the waist, visible at all times. 

* * * * * 

Bowdoin Wetland Management District 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow migratory game bird hunting on 

all Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) 

(except Holm WPA) throughout the 

District in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: We prohibit the use of 

motorboats. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

upland game hunting on all WPAs 

(except Holm WPA) throughout the 

District in accordance with State 

regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow big 

game hunting on all WPAs (except 

Holm WPA) throughout the District in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow portable tree stands, 

portable blinds, and freestanding 

elevated platforms to be left on WPAs 

from August 15 to December 15. 

2. You must label portable tree stands, 

portable blinds, and freestanding 

elevated platforms with your automated 

licensing system (ALS) number. The 

label must be legible from the ground. 

3. We only allow the use of archery, 

muzzleloader (as defined by State 

regulations), or shotgun on the McNeil 

Slough WPA and Hammond WPA. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on WPAs throughout the District 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following condition: 

We prohibit the use of motorboats. 

* * * * * 

Creedman Coulee National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

swan, sandhill crane, and mourning 

dove on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, sharp-tailed 

grouse, sage grouse, gray partridge, fox, 

and coyote on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow big 

game hunting on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

Lake Mason National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of upland game on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following condition: You may possess 

only approved nontoxic shot while in 

the field (see § 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of big game on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Lake Thibadeau National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

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dove in designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, sharp-tailed 

grouse, sage grouse, gray partridge, fox, 

and coyote on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow big 

game hunting on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory birds on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of upland game on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of big game on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations. 

* * * * * 

Swan River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of geese, ducks, and coots 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

archery hunting of elk, white-tailed 

deer, and mule deer on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow the use of portable blinds 

and stands. You may install stands and 

blinds no sooner than August 1, and you 

must remove them by December 15 of 

each year. We limit each hunter to one 

stand or blind. The hunter must have 

their name, address, phone number, and 

automated licensing system number 

(ALS) visibly marked on the stand. 

2. We prohibit the use of game or trail 

cameras. 

D. Sport Fishing. The refuge is open 

to sport fishing in accordance with State 

regulations on Swan River, Swan Lake, 

and Spring Creek North of Bog Trail 

Road. 

UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of upland game birds on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

allow coyote hunting from the first day 

of antelope rifle season through March 

1 annually. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of big game on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations. 

War Horse National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of upland game birds on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: You 

may possess only approved nontoxic 

shot while in the field (see § 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of big game on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations. 

■ 19. Amend § 32.46 by: 

■ a. Revising paragraphs A, B.1, B.2, C, 

D.1, and D.4 in the entry Crescent Lake 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising paragraphs C.1 and D in 

the entry North Platte National Wildlife 

Refuge; and 

■ d. Under the entry Rainwater Basin 

Wetland Management District: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.2, A.3, A.5, 

A.6, A.7, and A.8, 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraph A.4 as 

A.2; 

■ iii. Removing paragraph B.1; 

■ iv. Redesignating paragraphs B.2 and 

B.3 as paragraphs B.1 and B.2, 

respectively; and 

■ v. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph B.2 and paragraphs C and D. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.46 Nebraska. 

* * * * * 

Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl and coot in 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Hunters may enter the designated 

hunting area 2 hours before legal sunrise 

and must be back to their vehicle in the 

process of leaving the refuge 2 hours 

after legal sunset. Official shooting 

hours are from 1⁄2 hour before legal 

sunrise until 1⁄2 hour after legal sunset 

for deer, coyote, and furbearer hunters; 

and from 1⁄2 hour before legal sunrise 

until legal sunset for all other hunters. 

2. We only allow you to unleash dogs 

used to locate, point, and retrieve 

upland and small game and migratory 

birds on the refuge while hunting (see 

§ 26.21(b) of this chapter). 

3. We open the refuge to hunting from 

September 1 through January 31. 

4. We allow parking within one 

vehicle length of the road. 

5. We prohibit publicly organized 

hunts unless authorized under a Special 

Use Permit (FWS Form 3–1383–C). 

6. We only allow floating blinds on 

Island Lake. We prohibit all boats 

(including a floating device of any kind) 

on all other refuge lakes. 

B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1 through A5 apply. 

2. We allow electronic calls for coyote 

and furbearer hunting. 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and mule 

deer on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Conditions A1, A4, and A5 apply. 

D. * * * 

1. Anglers may enter the refuge 1 hour 

before legal sunrise and remain until 1 

hour after legal sunset. 

* * * * * 

4. We only allow boating and float 

tubes on Island Lake. We prohibit use of 

internal combustion motors for boats on 

Island Lake. 

* * * * * 

Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer and elk on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We require the submission of a Big/ 

Upland Game Hunt Application (FWS 

Form 3–2356). You must possess and 

carry a signed refuge hunt permit 

(signed brochure) when hunting. We 

require hunters to complete a Big Game 

Harvest Report (FWS Form 3–2359) and 

return it to the refuge at the conclusion 

of the hunting season. 

2. We allow hunting with 

muzzleloader and archery equipment. 

We prohibit hunting with firearms 

capable of firing cartridge ammunition. 

3. We allow hunting in the area 

defined as those refuge lands situated 

north and west of the Niobrara River. 

We allow access to this area only from 

designated refuge parking areas and the 

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4. We prohibit hunting within 200 

yards (180 meters) of any public use 

facility. 

5. We allow hunter access from 2 

hours before legal sunrise until 2 hours 

after legal sunset. 

6. We allow horses within the 

wilderness area. We limit horse use to 

three groups at a time and no more than 

five horses per group. We prohibit 

horses from 2 hours after legal sunset 

until 2 hours before legal sunrise. We 

require registration at the refuge 

headquarters prior to horse use during 

the hunting season. We limit horse 

access to the wilderness area via the 

refuge corrals and buffalo bridge. 

7. We prohibit leaving tree stands and 

ground blinds in the same location for 

more than 7 consecutive days. You must 

label unattended tree stands, elevated 

platforms, and ground blinds with your 

name and address; the label must be 

legible from the ground. You may put 

up tree stands, elevated platforms, and 

ground blinds, but no earlier than 

opening day of deer season; you must 

remove them by the last day of deer 

season. 

8. We prohibit hunting during the 

Nebraska November Firearm Deer 

Season. 

9. We prohibit the use of electronic or 

photographic trail monitoring devices. 

* * * * * 

North Platte National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

1. Condition B1 applies. 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations 

subject to the following condition: 

Fishing is only allowed on the Winter’s 

Creek Unit. 

Rainwater Basin Wetland Management 

District 

* * * * * 

B. * * * 

2. Condition A2 applies. 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow big 

game hunting on Waterfowl Production 

Areas (WPAs) throughout the District, 

excluding McMurtrey WPA in Clay 

County, in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: Condition A2 applies. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on Waterfowl Production Areas 

(WPAs) throughout the District, 

excluding McMurtrey WPA in Clay 

County, in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: Condition A1 applies. 

* * * * * 

■ 20. Amend § 32.47 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Ash Meadows 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.1 and A.4; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs A.2 and 

A.3 as paragraphs A.1 and A.2, 

respectively; and 

■ iii. Revising paragraph B; and 

■ b. Under the entry Pahranagat 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraph A.1; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs A.2 and 

A.3 as paragraphs A.1 and A.2, 

respectively; and 

■ iii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph A.2 and paragraphs B and 

D.2. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.47 Nevada. 

* * * * * 

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of quail and rabbit on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Condition A2 applies. 

* * * * * 

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

2. From October 1 to February 1, you 

may only possess shotshells in 

quantities of 25 or fewer when in the 

field. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of quail and rabbit on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

allow hunting of jackrabbits only during 

the State cottontail season. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

2. We only allow motorless boats or 

boats with electric motors on the Upper 

Lake, Middle Marsh, and Lower Lake, 

with the exception that we close Upper 

Lake to all boating from October 1 

through February 1. 

* * * * * 

■ 21. Revise § 32.48 to read as follows: 

§ 32.48 New Hampshire. 

The following refuge units have been 

opened for hunting and/or fishing, and 

are listed in alphabetical order with 

applicable refuge-specific regulations. 

Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow hunting within the refuge 

boundary upon navigable waters from 

within a boat. 

2. We prohibit access to land areas, 

mud flats, rocks, or marsh grass above 

mean high tide within the refuge. 

3. We prohibit hunters retrieving 

birds inland of the boundary signs. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State and local 

regulations, and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We require hunters to obtain and 

possess a refuge deer hunting permit, 

issued pursuant to an annual selection 

lottery. 

2. We require deer hunters to wear in 

a visible manner on the head, chest, and 

back, a minimum of 400 square inches 

(2,600 square centimeters) of solidcolored, blaze-orange clothing or 

material. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Silvio O. Conte National Fish and 

Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, common 

snipe, and American woodcock on the 

Pondicherry Division of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of coyote, fox, raccoon, 

woodchuck, red squirrel, eastern gray 

squirrel, porcupine, skunk, American 

crow, snowshoe hare, ring-necked 

pheasant, and ruffed grouse on the 

Pondicherry Division of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, moose, 

black bear, and wild turkey on the 

Pondicherry Division of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: You 

may use portable tree stands and blinds. 

Your name and address must be clearly 

visible on the tree stands or blinds, and 

you must remove your tree stands or 

blinds by the end of the season. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, snipe, 

coot, crow, and woodcock in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Hunters must remove temporary 

blinds, boats, and decoys from the 

refuge at the end of each day’s hunt (see 

§ 27.93 of this chapter). 

2. We prohibit dog training on the 

refuge. 

3. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting snipe, 

crow, and woodcock on the refuge (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

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squirrel, porcupine, skunk, snowshoe 

hare, ring-necked pheasant, and ruffed 

grouse in accordance with State 

regulations, seasons, and bag limits, and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit night hunting from 1⁄2

hour after legal sunset until 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise the following day. 

2. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot when hunting upland 

game on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

3. Condition A2 applies. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of bear, white-tailed deer, 

coyote, wild turkey, and moose in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit night hunting from 1⁄2

hour after legal sunset until 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise the following day. 

2. Condition A2 applies. 

3. Hunters must retrieve all species, 

including coyotes, harvested on the 

refuge. 

4. We allow temporary blinds and tree 

stands that are clearly marked with the 

owner’s name and address. Temporary 

blinds and tree stands may be erected 

no earlier than 14 days prior to the 

hunting season and must be removed 

within 14 days after the hunting season. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

■ 22. Amend § 32.49 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Cape May National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A, B.1, and B.2; 

■ ii. Removing paragraph B.4; 

■ iii. Revising paragraph C; 

■ iv. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph D and paragraph D.5; and 

■ v. Removing paragraphs D.6, D.7, D.8, 

and D.9; 

■ b. Revising the entry Edwin B. 

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Great Swamp 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising paragraphs A, C, and D.1 

in the entry Supawna Meadows 

National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ e. Revising the entry Wallkill River 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.49 New Jersey. 

* * * * * 

Cape May National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl, coot, 

moorhen, rail, common snipe, and 

woodcock on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow hunting only on those 

refuge tracts located west of Route 47 in 

the Delaware Bay Division and on those 

tracts north of Route 550 in the Great 

Cedar Swamp Division. We prohibit 

hunting on the Two Mile Beach Unit. 

2. The common snipe season on the 

refuge begins with the start of the State 

early woodcock south zone season and 

continues through the end of the State 

common snipe season. 

3. You may possess only approved 

nontoxic shot while hunting woodcock 

on the refuge (see § 32.2(k)). 

4. We allow the use of dogs for 

hunting; however, the dogs must be 

under the hunter’s control at all times. 

We prohibit dog training on the refuge. 

5. We prohibit falconry. 

B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1 and A5 apply. 

2. We allow rabbit and squirrel 

hunting following the end of the State’s 

Six-Day Firearm Season for white-tailed 

deer, until the close of the regular rabbit 

and squirrel season. 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow hunting of white-tailed 

deer on all areas of the refuge except for 

the Two Mile Beach Unit. 

2. We allow turkey hunting only on 

refuge tracts located north of County 

Route 550 in the Great Cedar Swamp 

Division. We prohibit turkey hunting on 

the Two Mile Beach Unit. 

3. We prohibit the use of dogs for 

turkey hunting. 

4. You must mark tree stands with 

owner information (name, address, and 

phone number). You must remove all 

deer hunting stands, blinds, and 

hunting materials at the end of the State 

deer hunting season. We prohibit 

permanent stands or blinds. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow saltwater 

sport fishing on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

* * * * * 

5. We prohibit fishing for, or 

possession of, shellfish on refuge lands. 

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of waterfowl, coot, 

moorhen, and rail on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

condition: We require hunters to 

possess a signed refuge hunt permit at 

all times while scouting and hunting on 

the refuge. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We require hunters to possess a 

signed refuge hunt permit at all times 

while scouting and hunting on the 

refuge. 

2. We prohibit the use of dogs while 

hunting. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and wild 

turkey on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require hunters to possess a 

signed refuge hunt permit at all times 

while scouting and hunting deer and 

turkey on the refuge. 

2. We require deer stands to be 

marked with the hunter’s Conservation 

Identification Number and removed at 

the end of the last day of the hunting 

season (no permanent stands). 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

prohibit use of internal combustion 

engines on Lily Lake and the Loveladies 

Kayak Area. 

Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

refuge hunting regulations: 

1. We require hunters to obtain and 

possess a State permit for the 

appropriate New Jersey Deer 

Management Zone at all times while 

hunting or scouting on the refuge. 

2. Hunters must purchase a refuge 

Deer Hunting Permit, and possess the 

signed refuge permit at all times while 

hunting or scouting on the refuge. Youth 

hunters age 16 years or younger must 

obtain a permit, but are only charged a 

processing fee. 

3. On scouting days, hunters must 

access the refuge between legal sunrise 

and legal sunset. On hunting days, 

hunters may enter the refuge 2 hours 

before legal shooting time and must 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

4. Hunters may put up tree stands 

beginning on the first scouting day, 

except on the day of the refuge’s youth 

hunt. They must retrieve their stands by 

12 p.m. (noon) on the Sunday after the 

last day of the hunt. All hunters must 

put their name and phone number on 

their stand, and they may have only one 

stand in the field at any one time. The 

refuge is not responsible for any stolen 

stands. 

5. We allow hunters to use sleds to 

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allowed) in the Wilderness Area east of 

Long Hill/New Vernon Road. 

6. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

7. The refuge hunt season consists of 

several scouting days, a 1-day youth 

hunt, and a 4-day regular hunt, usually 

in late October and early November. 

Dates are available annually from the 

refuge website and in the Great Swamp 

NWR Hunter Information Sheet. 

8. Refuge bag limits and hunt areas 

are determined annually by the refuge. 

Please refer to the most recent Great 

Swamp NWR Hunter Information Sheet 

and Refuge Hunt Map for specific 

information on annual bag limits and 

areas open to hunting. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Supawna Meadows National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of geese and ducks on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

allow only bow hunting on the refuge. 

D. * * * 

1. We prohibit the taking of frogs and 

turtles from all nontidal waters and 

refuge lands. 

* * * * * 

Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory birds on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State of New Jersey 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Wallkill 

River NWR Migratory Bird Hunting 

Permit from the refuge’s hunt permit 

website. We require hunters to possess 

a signed refuge hunt permit at all times 

while scouting and hunting on the 

refuge. We charge a fee for all hunters 

except youth age 16 and younger. We 

provide hunters with refuge hunt 

regulations, hunt maps, and a Refuge 

Parking Permit. 

2. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of coyote, fox, crow, ruffed 

grouse, opossum, raccoon, pheasant, 

chukar, rabbit/hare/jackrabbit, squirrel, 

and woodchuck on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State of 

New Jersey regulations and subject to 

the following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Wallkill 

River NWR Small Game Hunting Permit 

from the refuge’s hunt permit website. 

We require hunters to possess a signed 

refuge hunt permit at all times while 

scouting and hunting on the refuge. We 

charge a fee for all hunters except youth 

age 16 and younger. We provide hunters 

with refuge hunt regulations, hunt 

maps, and a Refuge Parking Permit. 

2. We prohibit night hunting. 

3. We prohibit the use of dogs. 

4. We prohibit the use of rifles. 

5. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, bear, and 

wild turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State of New 

Jersey regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Wallkill 

River NWR Deer, Bear, or Turkey 

Hunting Permit from the refuge’s hunt 

permit website. We require hunters to 

possess a signed refuge hunt permit at 

all times while scouting and hunting on 

the refuge. We charge a fee for all 

hunters except youth age 16 and 

younger. We provide hunters with 

refuge hunt regulations, hunt maps, and 

a Refuge Parking Permit. 

2. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

3. The Armstrong tract is archery only 

for deer (see hunt map). 

4. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on the refuge in accordance with 

State of New Jersey regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Owens Station Crossing is open for 

catch and release only. 

2. Fishing is permitted 1⁄2 hour before 

legal sunrise to 1⁄2 hour after legal 

sunset. We prohibit night fishing. 

3. We prohibit the taking of 

amphibians and reptiles. 

4. We prohibit minnow/bait trapping. 

■ 23. Amend § 32.50 by revising the 

entry Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge 

to read as follows: 

§ 32.50 New Mexico. 

* * * * * 

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of mourning dove, whitewinged dove, geese, ducks, and coot on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. In Units A and B, legal hunting 

hours will run from 1⁄2 hour before legal 

sunrise and will not extend past 1:00 

p.m. (local time) on each hunt day. 

Hunters may access Units A and B from 

1 hour before legal sunrise until 1 hour 

after legal sunset. We allow falcons to 

hunt dove in the Rio Puerco Unit only. 

2. Hunters may not possess more than 

25 shotgun shells while in the field. 

3. We allow unleashed hunting and/ 

or retrieving dogs on the refuge when 

hunters are legally present in areas 

where hunting is allowed, only if the 

dogs are under the immediate control of 

hunters at all time, and only to pursue 

species legally in season at that time. 

4. We prohibit hunting along/on the 

river within the refuge boundary. 

5. At Unit A, in the Cornerstone 

Marsh Unit, hunters who are disabled 

(per Mobility-Impaired Certification in 

the State Hunting Rules and Information 

pamphlet) are given priority use. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of Gambel’s quail and Eurasian 

collared-dove on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A2 through A5 apply. 

2. In the Rio Puerco Unit, legal 

hunting hours will run from 1⁄2 hour 

before legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

3. We allow Eurasian collared-dove 

hunting in all three hunt units. We 

allow Gambel’s quail hunting only in 

the Rio Puerco Unit as designated on the 

refuge hunting map. 

4. While all State and Federal hunting 

regulations regarding methods of take, 

bag limits, and other factors apply to 

Eurasian collared-dove hunting on the 

refuge, hunting dates for Eurasian 

collared-dove are limited to the same 

dates as the New Mexico Department of 

Game and Fish (NMDGF) Dove South 

Zone. 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

■ 24. Amend § 32.51 by: 

■ a. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife 

Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Iroquois National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Montezuma 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ e. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ f. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ g. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

Shawangunk Grasslands National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ h. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ i. Revising the entry Wallkill River 

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■ j. Under the entry Wertheim National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph C and the 

introductory text of paragraph D; 

■ ii. Removing paragraph D.3; and 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraph D.4 as 

D.3. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.51 New York. 

* * * * * 

Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Anglers may only surf fish in the 

Atlantic Ocean from the refuge 

shoreline in accordance with State 

regulations. 

2. Seasonal closure applies from April 

1 to August 31. 

Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations 

subject to the following condition: We 

allow fishing only from the beach and 

in areas not designated as closed. 

Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, rail, coot, 

gallinule, woodcock, and snipe on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. For hunting of duck, goose, and 

coot: 

i. We allow hunting on Saturday of 

the New York State Youth Days. 

ii. We allow hunting Tuesdays, 

Thursdays, and Saturdays from opening 

day of regular waterfowl season until 

the end of the first split. We require 

proof of successful completion of the 

New York State Waterfowl 

Identification Course, the Iroquois 

Nonresident Waterfowl Identification 

Course, or a suitable nonresident State 

Waterfowl Identification Course to hunt 

in the refuge; all hunters must show 

proof each time they hunt, in addition 

to showing their valid hunting license 

and signed Federal Migratory Bird 

Hunting and Conservation Stamp 

(Federal Duck Stamp). 

iii. We require refuge waterfowl 

hunting permits. 

iv. We only allow hunting from legal 

starting time until 12 p.m. (noon) and 

require hunters to check out no later 

than 1 p.m., and return the Migratory 

Bird Hunt Report (FWS Form 3–2361) to 

the waterfowl hunter check station. 

v. We require hunters to stay in 

designated hunting areas, unless 

actively pursuing downed or crippled 

birds. 

vi. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shotshells (see § 32.2(k)) in the 

field. 

vii. We only allow the use of 

nonmotorized boats. 

2. For hunting of rail, gallinule, snipe, 

and woodcock: 

i. We only allow hunting east of Sour 

Springs Road from October 1 until the 

opening of regular waterfowl season. 

ii. You may only possess approved 

nontoxic shot in the field (see § 32.2(k)). 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of ruffed grouse, gray squirrel, 

cottontail rabbit, pheasant, coyote, fox, 

raccoon, skunk, and opossum on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Small game hunting; 

i. We allow hunting from October 1 

until the last day of February. 

ii. We prohibit the use of raptors to 

take small game. 

iii. Condition A.2.ii applies. 

2. Furbearer hunting: 

i. Condition B.1.i applies. 

ii. We prohibit night hunting. 

iii. Condition A.2.ii applies. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

require a refuge permit for spring turkey 

hunting. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and frogging on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing and frogging from 

legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

2. We prohibit the collection and/or 

releasing of baitfish. 

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow waterfowl, Canada goose, and 

snow goose hunting on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. For the regular waterfowl season: 

i. We require daily refuge permits 

(Migratory Bird Hunt Report, FWS Form 

3–2361) and reservations; we issue 

permits to hunters with a reservation for 

that hunt day. We require you to 

complete and return your permit by the 

end of the hunt day. 

ii. We allow hunting only on 

Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 

during the established refuge season set 

within the State western zone season. 

We allow a youth waterfowl hunt 

during New York State’s established 

youth waterfowl hunt each year. 

iii. All hunters with reservations and 

their hunting companions must checkin at the Route 89 Hunter Check Station 

area at least 1 hour before legal shooting 

time or forfeit their reservation. 

Forfeited reservations become available 

on a first-come, first-served basis to 

standby hunters at the Route 89 Hunter 

Check Station. 

iv. We allow motorless boats to hunt 

waterfowl. We limit hunters to one boat 

per reservation and one motor vehicle in 

the hunt area per reservation. 

v. We prohibit shooting from any dike 

or within 50 feet (15.2 meters) of any 

dike or road, or from within 500 feet 

(152.4 meters) of the Tschache Pool 

observation tower. 

vi. We require proof of successful 

completion of the New York State 

Waterfowl Identification Course, the 

Montezuma Nonresident Waterfowl 

Identification Course, or a suitable 

nonresident State Waterfowl 

Identification Course to hunt in the 

refuge; all hunters must show proof 

each time they hunt, in addition to 

showing their valid hunting license and 

signed Federal Migratory Bird Hunting 

and Conservation Stamp (Federal Duck 

Stamp). 

2. For Canada goose and snow goose 

hunting: 

i. We allow hunting of Canada goose 

during the New York State September 

(or ‘‘early’’) season and of snow goose 

during portions of the New York State 

snow goose season and portions of the 

period covered by the Light Goose 

Conservation Order. 

ii. We allow Canada goose and snow 

goose hunting 7 days per week during 

the refuge’s set hunting dates. 

iii. You must possess a valid daily 

hunt permit card (Migratory Bird Hunt 

Report, FWS Form 3–2361). We require 

you to complete and return the daily 

hunt permit card by the end of the hunt 

day. Entry onto the refuge to obtain a 

permit is authorized no earlier than 11⁄2

hours before legal sunrise. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of wild turkey only during the 

New York State fall and youth turkey 

seasons on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You must carry a valid daily hunt 

permit card (Big/Upland Game Hunt 

Application, FWS Form 3–2356). We 

require you to complete and return the 

daily hunt permit card by the end of the 

hunt day. 

2. We prohibit parking and walking 

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of hunting, unless otherwise posted by 

refuge personnel. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We close Esker Brook and South 

Spring Pool Trails to hunting before 

November 1 each year. We close 

Wildlife Drive to hunting before 

December 1 each year. We open Seneca 

Trail and the Refuge Headquarters area 

during New York State’s late archery/ 

muzzleloader season only. We allow a 

youth white-tailed deer hunt during the 

State’s established youth white-tailed 

deer hunt each year. 

2. You must possess a valid daily 

hunt permit card (Big/Upland Game 

Hunt Application, FWS Form 3–2356). 

We require you to complete and return 

the daily hunt permit card by the end 

of the hunt day. 

3. We allow advanced scouting of the 

refuge, prior to the hunting season, 

during a time set by the refuge manager. 

4. We allow white-tailed deer hunters 

to be on the refuge during the period 

that begins 2 hours before legal sunrise 

and ends 2 hours after legal sunset. 

5. We prohibit parking and walking 

along the Wildlife Drive for the purpose 

of hunting, unless otherwise posted by 

refuge personnel. 

D. Sport Fishing. Anglers may access 

the New York State Barge Canal System 

Waters at established fishing access sites 

on the refuge. You may either bank fish 

or boat fish in accordance with State 

regulations. 

Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Anglers may fish from designated areas 

on the refuge shoreline at Mill Pond 

from legal sunrise until legal sunset. 

Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations 

subject to the following condition: 

Anglers may fish in refuge-controlled 

waters of Great South Bay from boats 

only. 

Shawangunk Grasslands National 

Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State of New York 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a 

Shawangunk Grasslands NWR Deer 

Hunting Permit from the refuge’s hunt 

permit website. We require hunters to 

possess a signed refuge hunt permit at 

all times while scouting and hunting on 

the refuge. We charge a fee for all 

hunters except youth age 16 and 

younger. We provide hunters with 

refuge hunt regulations, hunt maps, and 

a Refuge Parking Permit. 

2. Deer may be taken using archery 

equipment only. 

3. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

4. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

* * * * * 

Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: We 

allow fishing in Huntington Bay from 

the refuge shoreline when the refuge is 

open to visitors. 

Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory birds on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State of New York 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Wallkill 

River NWR Migratory Bird Hunting 

Permit from the refuge’s hunt permit 

website. We require hunters to possess 

a signed refuge hunt permit at all times 

while scouting and hunting on the 

refuge. We charge a fee for all hunters 

except youth age 16 and younger. We 

provide hunters with refuge hunt 

regulations, hunt maps, and a Refuge 

Parking Permit. 

2. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of rabbit/hare, gray/black/fox 

squirrel, pheasant, bobwhite quail, 

ruffed grouse, crow, red/gray fox, 

coyote, bobcat, raccoon, skunk, mink, 

weasel, and opossum on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State of New York regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Wallkill 

River NWR Small Game Hunting Permit 

from the refuge’s hunt permit website. 

We require hunters to possess a signed 

refuge hunt permit at all times while 

scouting and hunting on the refuge. We 

charge a fee for all hunters except youth 

age 16 and younger. We provide hunters 

with refuge hunt regulations, hunt 

maps, and a Refuge Parking Permit. 

2. We prohibit night hunting. 

3. We prohibit the use of dogs. 

4. We prohibit the use of rifles. 

5. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, bear, and 

wild turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State of New 

York regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Wallkill 

River NWR Deer, Bear, or Turkey 

Hunting Permit from the refuge’s hunt 

permit website. We require hunters to 

possess a signed refuge hunt permit at 

all times while scouting and hunting on 

the refuge. We charge a fee for all 

hunters except youth age 16 and 

younger. We provide hunters with 

refuge hunt regulations, hunt maps, and 

a Refuge Parking Permit. 

2. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

3. We prohibit the use of rifles. 

4. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

leave no later than 2 hours after legal 

shooting time. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on the refuge in accordance with 

State of New York regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Owens Station Crossing is open for 

catch and release only. 

2. Fishing is permitted 1⁄2 hour before 

legal sunrise to 1⁄2 hour after legal 

sunset. We prohibit night fishing. 

3. We prohibit the taking of 

amphibians and reptiles. 

4. We prohibit minnow/bait trapping. 

Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer within 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow archery and shotgun 

hunting of white-tailed deer within 

portions of the refuge during specific 

days between October 1 and January 31. 

2. We require refuge permits. We limit 

the number of deer hunters permitted to 

hunt on the refuge. We will issue 

permits by random selection. 

3. You must take the specified 

number of antlerless deer as noted in 

the refuge hunting regulations before 

taking an antlered deer. 

4. We prohibit driving deer by any 

means. We define a ‘‘drive’’ as two or 

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chasing, pursuing, disturbing, or 

otherwise directing deer to make the 

animal more susceptible to harvest. 

5. Hunters assigned to Unit 5 must 

hunt from portable tree stands and must 

direct aim away from a public road and/ 

or dwelling. 

6. We allow scouting of hunting areas 

on the refuge only during designated 

times and days. We prohibit the use of 

dogs during scouting. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

* * * * * 

■ 25. Amend § 32.53 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Arrowwood 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs B.3, B.4, and 

C.6, 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs C.4 and 

C.5 as paragraphs C.3 and C.4, 

respectively; 

■ iii. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph C.4, and paragraphs D.1, D.3, 

and D.4; and 

■ iv. Removing paragraphs D.5 and D.6; 

■ b. Under the entry J. Clark Salyer 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs B.8 and B.9; 

■ ii. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph C; 

■ iii. Removing paragraphs C.5, C.6, and 

C.9; 

■ iv. Redesignating paragraphs C.3, C.4, 

C.7, and C.8 as paragraphs C.4, C.5, C.6, 

and C.7, respectively; 

■ v. Adding new paragraph C.3; 

■ vi. Revising paragraph D.6; and 

■ vii. Removing paragraphs D.7 and D.8; 

■ c. Revising the entry Lostwood 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Under the entry Tewaukon 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph B.2; and 

■ ii. Adding new paragraphs C.4, D.3, 

D.4, and D.5; and 

■ e. Under the entry Upper Souris 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A, B.6, and B.7; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs B.9 and B.10; 

■ iii. Revising paragraph C.2; 

■ iv. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.4, and 

C.5; 

■ v. Redesignating paragraph C.6 as 

paragraph C.3; 

■ vi. Revising paragraphs D.6 and D.7; 

■ vii. Removing paragraphs D.8, D.9, 

and D.10; 

■ viii. Redesignating paragraphs D.11 

through D.14 as paragraphs D.8 through 

D.11, respectively; and 

■ ix. Adding new paragraph D.12. 

The additions and revisions read as 

follows: 

§ 32.53 North Dakota. 

* * * * * 

Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

4. We allow temporary tree stands, 

blinds, and game cameras for daily use; 

you must remove them by the end of the 

day. 

D. * * * 

1. We allow boats at idle speed only 

on Arrowwood Lake and Jim Lake from 

May 1 to September 30 of each fishing 

year. 

* * * * * 

3. We allow ice fishing and dark 

house spearfishing. We allow 

snowmobiles, ATVs, UTVs, motor 

vehicles, and fish houses on the ice as 

conditions allow. We restrict 

snowmobile, ATV, UTV, and motor 

vehicle use to unvegetated ice areas, 

designated roads, and access points. 

4. You may use and leave fish houses 

on the ice overnight until March 15; 

after March 15, you must remove fish 

houses from the refuge before leaving 

for the day. We prohibit leaving fish 

houses overnight or unattended on 

refuge uplands or in parking areas. 

* * * * * 

J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and moose 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

* * * * * 

3. We open the entire refuge to moose 

hunting except the closed areas listed in 

C2. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

6. We allow ice fishing and dark 

house spearfishing. We allow 

snowmobiles, ATVs, UTVs, motor 

vehicles, and fish houses on the ice as 

conditions allow. We restrict 

snowmobile, ATV, UTV, and motor 

vehicle use to unvegetated ice areas, 

designated roads, and access points. 

* * * * * 

Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of sharp-tailed grouse, 

Hungarian partridge, and ring-necked 

pheasant on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We open the refuge daily from 5 

a.m. to 10 p.m. 

2. We prohibit upland game hunting 

on the portion of the refuge south of 

Highway 50 during regular deer gun 

season. 

3. We allow upland game hunting on 

the portion of the refuge north of 

Highway 50 on the day following the 

close of the regular deer gun season 

through the end of the State season. 

4. You may use hunting dogs to 

retrieve upland game. Dogs must be 

under your direct control at all times. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow deer 

and moose hunting on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Condition B1 applies. 

2. We prohibit entry to the refuge 

before 12 p.m. (noon) on the first day of 

the respective archery, gun, or 

muzzleloader deer hunting season. 

3. We prohibit the use of trail 

cameras. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

* * * * * 

Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge 

B. * * * 

2. We open the refuge daily from 5 

a.m. to 10 p.m. 

C. * * * 

4. Condition B2 applies. 

D. * * * 

3. We allow snowmobiles, ATVs, 

UTVs, motor vehicles, and fish houses 

on the ice as conditions allow. We 

restrict snowmobile, ATV, UTV, and 

motor vehicle use to unvegetated ice 

areas, designated roads, and access 

points. 

4. We prohibit leaving fish houses 

overnight or unattended on refuge 

uplands or in parking areas. 

5. Condition B2 applies. 

* * * * * 

Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. * * * 

6. We allow hunters on the refuge 

from 5:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. 

7. We prohibit the use of bicycles or 

similar vehicles on the refuge. 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

2. Conditions B5 through B8 apply. 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

6. We prohibit the use of amphibious 

vehicles, personal watercraft (PWCs), 

bicycles, or similar vehicles on the 

refuge. 

7. We allow snowmobiles, ATVs, 

UTVs, motor vehicles, and fish houses 

on the ice as conditions allow from Lake 

Darling Dam north to Carter Dam (Dam 

41) for ice fishing. We restrict 

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vehicle use to unvegetated ice areas, 

designated roads, and access points. 

Consult with the refuge manager or 

refuge fishing brochure for specific 

areas. 

* * * * * 

12. Condition B6 applies. 

* * * * * 

■ 26. Revise § 32.54 to read as follows: 

§ 32.54 Ohio. 

The following refuge units have been 

opened to hunting and/or fishing, and 

are listed in alphabetical order with 

applicable refuge-specific regulations. 

Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

white-tailed deer hunting on designated 

dates in the controlled hunt areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a Stateissued permit. All hunters must check 

in and out at the refuge check station. 

We require hunters to check out with 

the State-issued Harvest Card no later 

than 2 hours after the conclusion of 

their controlled hunt. 

2. We require hunters to remain 

within their assigned unit. 

3. We require hunters to obtain 

permission from refuge officials before 

tracking a wounded deer out of the 

assigned hunting unit. 

4. We prohibit hunting or shooting 

within 150 feet (45.7 meters) of any 

structure, building, or parking lot. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow fishing from legal sunrise 

to legal sunset during designated dates. 

2. We allow boats and flotation 

devices. 

Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, rails, 

gallinule, coot, dove, woodcock, and 

snipe on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. On controlled waterfowl hunt 

units, we allow hunting of goose, duck, 

and coot in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

i. You must stop hunting at 12 p.m. 

(noon) each day. 

ii. You must stay in your assigned 

hunt unit. 

iii. You may possess no more than 25 

shot shells. 

2. On public hunting units, we allow 

hunting of ducks, geese, rails, gallinule, 

coot, dove, woodcock, and snipe in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

i. We allow refuge access from 11⁄2

hours prior to the State-listed morning 

shooting time and 1 hour after the Statelisted evening shooting time. 

ii. We allow the use of hunting dogs, 

provided the dog is under the 

immediate control of the hunter at all 

times. 

iii. We allow nonmotorized boats in 

areas open to waterfowl hunting during 

the waterfowl hunting seasons with the 

following exception: We allow 

motorized boats in the Metzger Marsh 

and Two Rivers units. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant, squirrel, rabbit, 

fox, raccoon, skunk, opossum, 

groundhog, and coyote on designated 

public hunting units of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A.2.i and A.2.ii apply. 

2. We prohibit the use of buckshot for 

any hunting on the refuge. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and wild 

turkey on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. On controlled deer hunt units, we 

allow hunting of white-tailed deer only 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

i. We require hunters to possess and 

carry a State-issued permit. You must 

check in and out at the refuge check 

station using the State-issued Harvest 

Card no later than 2 hours after the 

conclusion of your hunt. 

ii. You must remain within your 

assigned unit. 

iii. You must obtain permission from 

refuge officials before tracking a 

wounded deer out of your assigned 

hunting unit. 

iv. We prohibit hunting or shooting 

within 150 feet (45.7 meters) of any 

structure, building, or parking lot. 

2. We allow hunting of white-tailed 

deer and turkey on designated public 

hunting units of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

i. Conditions A.2.i and B2 apply. 

ii. We allow only portable deer stands 

for hunting. We allow only one tree 

stand per hunter per refuge unit. We 

allow placement of tree stands after 

September 1 and require hunters to 

remove tree stands by March 1 of each 

year. We require deer stands to be 

labeled with owner’s name and address. 

iii. For hunting, you may use or 

possess only approved nontoxic shot 

shells while in the field, including shot 

shells used for hunting wild turkey (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow fishing from legal sunrise 

to legal sunset during designated dates. 

2. We allow boats and flotation 

devices in designated areas. 

■ 27. Amend § 32.56 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Cold Springs 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs A.2, A.3, and 

A.4; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.5, A.6, and 

A.7; and 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs B.2 and C; 

■ b. Under the entry Lower Klamath 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph A, and paragraphs A.1 and 

A.3; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.4 and A.7; 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs A.5 and 

A.6 as paragraphs A.4 and A.5, 

respectively; and 

■ iv. Revising paragraph B; and 

■ c. Under the entry William L. Finley 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.6, C.7, 

C.8, C.9, and C.10; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs C.4 and 

C.5 as paragraphs C.3 and C.4, 

respectively; 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs D.1 and D.2; 

and 

■ iv. Adding new paragraphs D.3 and 

D.4. 

The additions and revisions read as 

follows: 

§ 32.56 Oregon. 

* * * * * 

Cold Springs National Wildlife Refuge 

A. * * * 

2. We prohibit discharge of any 

firearm within 1⁄4 mile (396 meters (m)) 

of any maintained building or Federal 

facility, such as, but not limited to, a 

structure designed for storage, human 

occupancy, or shelter for animals. You 

may not shoot or discharge any firearm 

from, across, or along a public highway, 

designated route of travel, road, road 

shoulder, road embankment, or 

designated parking area. 

3. We allow hunting only on 

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 

Sundays, and all federally recognized 

holidays within the State season, with 

the exception of dove. We only allow 

hunting for all dove species within the 

State mourning dove season. 

4. On the Memorial Marsh Unit, we 

allow waterfowl hunting only from 

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must park their vehicles only at the 

numbered post corresponding to the 

numbered field blind site they are using 

(see § 27.31 of this chapter). Selection of 

parking sites/numbered posts is on a 

first-come, first-served basis at parking 

lot F. We prohibit free-roam hunting or 

jump shooting, and you must remain 

within 100 feet (30 m) of the numbered 

field blind post unless retrieving birds 

or setting decoys. We allow a maximum 

of four persons per blind site. 

B. * * * 

2. We allow hunting from 12 p.m. 

(noon) to legal sunset. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of elk on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We allow hunting under emergency 

hunt permit or kill permit only (issued 

by the State). 

* * * * * 

Lower Klamath National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, coot, and 

common snipe on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State laws 

and regulations, and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. In the controlled waterfowl hunting 

area, we require a valid Refuge 

Recreation Pass for all hunters age 16 or 

older. An adult with a valid Recreation 

Pass must accompany hunters age 17 or 

younger who are hunting in the 

controlled area. 

* * * * * 

3. Entry hours begin at 4:30 a.m. 

unless otherwise posted. 

* * * * * 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations, and subject to the following 

condition: In the controlled pheasant 

hunting area, we require a valid Refuge 

Recreation Pass for all hunters age 16 or 

older. An adult with a valid Recreation 

Pass must accompany hunters age 17 or 

younger who are hunting in the 

controlled area. 

* * * * * 

William L. Finley National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. * * * 

1. We allow fishing on Muddy Creek. 

2. We allow bank fishing on the Snag 

Boat Bend Unit only on the Willamette 

River and Lake Creek. 

3. We allow fishing from legal sunrise 

to legal sunset. 

4. We allow anglers to use pole and 

line, or rod and reel. Anglers must 

attend their line. 

■ 28. Amend § 32.57 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Cherry Valley 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising the entry Erie National 

Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ c. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at 

Tinicum. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.57 Pennsylvania. 

* * * * * 

Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory birds, 

including waterfowl (i.e., ducks, 

mergansers, coots, and geese), doves, 

woodcock, snipe, rails, moorhens, and 

gallinules, on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State of 

Pennsylvania regulations and subject to 

the following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Cherry 

Valley NWR Migratory Bird Hunting 

Permit from the refuge’s hunt permit 

website. We require hunters to possess 

a signed refuge hunt permit at all times 

while scouting and hunting on the 

refuge. We charge a fee for all hunters 

except youth age 16 and younger. We 

provide hunters with refuge hunt 

regulations, hunt maps, and a Refuge 

Parking Permit. 

2. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

must leave no later than 2 hours after 

legal shooting time. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrels, grouse, rabbit, 

pheasant, quail, woodchuck, crow, fox, 

raccoon, opossum, skunk, weasel, 

coyote, and bobcat on designated areas 

of the refuge in accordance with State of 

Pennsylvania regulations and subject to 

the following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Cherry 

Valley NWR Small Game Hunting 

Permit from the refuge’s hunt permit 

website. We require hunters to possess 

a signed refuge hunt permit at all times 

while scouting and hunting on the 

refuge. We charge a fee for all hunters 

except youth age 16 and younger. We 

provide hunters with refuge hunt 

regulations, hunt maps, and a Refuge 

Parking Permit. 

2. We prohibit night hunting. 

3. We prohibit the use of dogs. 

4. We prohibit the use of rifles. 

5. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

must leave no later than 2 hours after 

legal shooting time. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, bear, and 

wild turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State of 

Pennsylvania regulations and subject to 

the following conditions: 

1. Hunters must purchase a Cherry 

Valley NWR Deer, Bear, or Wild Turkey 

Hunting Permit from the refuge’s hunt 

permit website. We require hunters to 

possess a signed refuge hunt permit at 

all times while scouting and hunting on 

the refuge. We charge a fee for all 

hunters except youth age 16 and 

younger. We provide hunters with 

refuge hunt regulations, hunt maps, and 

a Refuge Parking Permit. 

2. We prohibit organized deer drives. 

3. Hunters may enter the refuge 2 

hours before legal shooting time and 

must leave no later than 2 hours after 

legal shooting time. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

Erie National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of mourning dove, rail, 

common snipe, Canada goose, duck, 

coot, and crow on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow hunting activities on the 

refuge from September 1 through the 

end of February. We allow scouting for 

those same dates, and for the 7 days 

prior to the start of each season. 

2. We only allow nonmotorized boats 

for waterfowl hunting in permitted 

areas. 

3. We prohibit field possession of 

migratory game birds in areas of the 

refuge closed to migratory game bird 

hunting, unless authorized by the refuge 

to retrieve downed or crippled animals. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of ruffed grouse, squirrel, 

rabbit, woodchuck, pheasant, quail, 

raccoon, fox, coyote, skunk, and 

opossum on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow woodchuck hunting on 

the refuge from September 1 through the 

end of February. 

2. We prohibit the use of raptors to 

take small game. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer, bear, and turkey on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow bank fishing only on the 

Seneca Unit of the refuge. We prohibit 

wading. 

2. We prohibit the use of watercraft 

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5 where we allow nonmotorized 

watercraft use. Watercraft must remain 

in an area from the dike to 3,000 feet 

(900 meters) upstream. 

3. We prohibit the taking of turtle or 

frog. 

4. We prohibit the collecting or 

releasing of baitfish. 

5. We prohibit the taking or 

possession of shellfish on the refuge. 

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at 

Tinicum 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

archery-only hunting of white-tailed 

deer on designated areas of the refuge, 

during specified dates, in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Hunters must possess a valid refuge 

hunting special use permit and comply 

with all terms and conditions. 

2. Junior hunters age 15 and younger 

must be accompanied by an adult 

member of the family (age 18 or older), 

or by an adult serving in the place of a 

parent. 

* * * * * 

■ 29. Amend § 32.59 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Block Island 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising the entry Ninigret National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

Sachuest Point National Wildlife 

Refuge; and 

■ d. Revising paragraphs A and D in the 

entry Trustom Pond National Wildlife 

Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.59 Rhode Island. 

* * * * * 

Block Island National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require hunters to submit a Big/ 

Upland Game Hunt Application (FWS 

Form 3–2356) to be selected to hunt on 

the refuge. 

2. Hunters must mark portable tree 

stands/blinds with refuge permit 

number. 

3. We prohibit hunting within 100 

feet (30 meters) of a refuge trail. 

D. Sport Fishing. Anglers may 

saltwater fish from the refuge shoreline 

in accordance with State regulations. 

* * * * * 

Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require hunters to submit a Big/ 

Upland Game Hunt Application (FWS 

Form 3–2356) to be selected to hunt on 

the refuge. 

2. Hunters must mark portable tree 

stands/blinds with refuge permit 

number. 

3. We prohibit hunting within 100 

feet (30 meters) of a refuge trail. 

D. Sport Fishing. Anglers may 

saltwater fish from the refuge shoreline 

in accordance with State regulations. 

Anglers may saltwater fish and shellfish 

in Ninigret Pond from the refuge 

shoreline only from legal sunrise to 

legal sunset in accordance with State 

and refuge regulations. 

Sachuest Point National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow saltwater 

fishing on the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Anglers may saltwater fish in the 

Sakonnet River and Sachuest Bay from 

the refuge shoreline. 

2. Anglers may saltwater fish at 

Sachuest Beach shoreline from 

September 16 to March 31. 

3. Anglers may night-fish after legal 

sunset with a refuge permit. 

Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of Canada geese and 

mourning doves on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State 

regulations. 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. Anglers may 

saltwater fish from the refuge shoreline 

from September 16 to March 31 in 

accordance with State and refuge 

regulations. 

■ 30. Amend § 32.60, under the entry 

Pinckney Island National Wildlife 

Refuge, by: 

■ a. Revising paragraphs C.3 and C.4; 

■ b. Removing paragraphs C.5, C.8, and 

C.10; 

■ c. Redesignating paragraphs C.6, C.7, 

C.9, C.11, C.13, and C.14 as paragraphs 

C.5, C.6, C.7, C.8, C.9, and C.10, 

respectively; 

■ d. Adding new paragraph C.11; 

■ e. Revising paragraph C.12; 

■ f. Removing paragraphs C.15, C.16, 

and C.18; 

■ g. Redesignating paragraph C. 17 as 

paragraph C.13; and 

■ h. Removing paragraph D.3. 

The revisions and addition read as 

follows: 

§ 32.60 South Carolina. 

* * * * * 

Pinckney Island National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

3. Hunters must check-in at the 

designated check station and park in the 

designated area prior to hunting. We 

require personal identification at checkin. 

4. We prohibit entry by boat, and we 

prohibit hunters to leave by boat to 

reach other parts of the island. 

* * * * * 

11. We will close the refuge to the 

nonhunting public on hunt days. 

12. Youth hunters age 15 and younger 

must remain within sight and normal 

voice contact of an adult age 21 or older. 

One adult may supervise no more than 

one youth hunter. 

* * * * * 

■ 31. Amend § 32.62 by: 

■ a. Revising the entry Chickasaw 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ b. Revising the entry Hatchie National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ c. Revising the entry Lake Isom 

National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Revising the entry Lower Hatchie 

National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ e. Revising the entry Reelfoot National 

Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.62 Tennessee. 

* * * * * 

Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

merganser, mourning dove, woodcock, 

and snipe on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We seasonally close the refuge 

sanctuary area to the public from 

November 15 through March 15. 

2. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge permit (signed refuge 

brochure) and comply with all permit 

provisions and other applicable State 

and Federal laws. 

3. We allow hunting for duck, goose, 

coot, and merganser from 1⁄2 hour before 

legal sunrise to 12 p.m. (noon) CST. We 

allow hunters to access the refuge no 

more than 2 hours before legal sunrise. 

4. We close mourning dove, 

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firearms, youth, and muzzleloader deer 

seasons. 

5. You may use only portable blinds, 

and you must remove all boats, blinds, 

and decoys from the refuge by 1 p.m. 

CST daily. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, quail, 

raccoon, and opossum on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We allow hunters to access the 

refuge no more than 2 hours before legal 

sunrise to no later than 2 hours after 

legal sunset, except that raccoon and 

opossum hunters may access the refuge 

from legal sunset to legal sunrise. 

3. We do not open for spring squirrel 

season on the refuge. 

4. We close squirrel, rabbit, and quail 

seasons during all firearms, youth, and 

muzzleloader deer seasons. 

5. We close raccoon and opossum 

seasons on Friday and Saturday nights 

during all firearms, youth, and 

muzzleloader deer hunts and seasons, 

including the Friday night prior to any 

hunt or season that opens on a Saturday 

morning. 

6. We allow horses only on roads 

open to motorized traffic. We prohibit 

the use of horses and other animal 

conveyances from all other areas 

including fields, woods, and foot trails. 

7. You may take coyote and beaver 

incidental to legal hunting activities 

with legal methods of take for those 

hunts. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A2, B2, B6, and B7 

apply. 

2. You may only participate in the 

refuge quota hunts with a special quota 

permit issued through random drawing. 

Information for permit applications is 

available at the refuge headquarters. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A1 applies. 

2. We allow fishing only with pole 

and line, or rod and reel. 

3. We allow the use of bow and arrow, 

or a gig to take nongame fish on refuge 

waters. 

4. We prohibit taking frog or turtle on 

the refuge. 

* * * * * 

Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

merganser, mourning dove, woodcock, 

and snipe on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We seasonally close the sanctuary 

areas of the refuge to the public from 

November 15 through March 15. 

2. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge permit (signed refuge 

brochure) and comply with all permit 

provisions and other applicable State 

and Federal laws. 

3. We allow waterfowl hunting only 

on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 

We allow hunting for duck, goose, coot, 

and merganser from 1⁄2 hour before legal 

sunrise until 12 p.m. (noon) CST. We 

allow hunters to access the refuge no 

earlier than 2 hours before legal sunrise. 

4. We close mourning dove, 

woodcock, and snipe seasons during all 

quota gun and youth deer gun hunts. 

5. You may use only portable blinds, 

and you must remove all boats, blinds, 

and decoys from the refuge by 1 p.m. 

CST daily. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, quail, 

raccoon, and opossum on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We allow hunters to access the 

refuge no earlier than 2 hours before 

legal sunrise to no later than 2 hours 

after legal sunset, except that raccoon 

and opossum hunters may access the 

refuge from legal sunset to legal sunrise. 

3. We do not open to spring squirrel 

season on the refuge. 

4. We close all small game hunts 

during the refuge deer quota and youth 

gun hunts. 

5. We allow horses only on roads 

open to motorized traffic. We prohibit 

the use of horses and other animal 

conveyances from all other areas 

including fields, woods, and foot trails. 

6. You may take coyote and beaver 

incidental to legal hunting activities 

with legal methods of take for those 

hunts. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 through A2, B2, B5, 

and B6 apply. 

2. You may only participate in the 

refuge deer quota hunts with a special 

quota permit (name and address only) 

issued through random drawing. 

Information for permit applications is 

available at the refuge headquarters. 

3. We allow archery deer and turkey 

hunting on designated areas of the 

refuge as defined annually in the refuge 

Public Use Regulations available at the 

refuge office and in accordance with 

State regulations. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A1 applies. 

2. We allow fishing only with pole 

and line, or rod and reel. 

3. We allow use of a bow and arrow, 

or gig to take nongame fish on refuge 

waters. 

4. We prohibit taking frog or turtle on 

the refuge. 

5. We open Oneal Lake for fishing 

during a restricted season and for 

authorized special events. Information 

on events and season dates is available 

at the refuge headquarters. 

6. We only allow fishing boats of 18 

feet (5.5 meters) or less in length on 

refuge lakes. 

7. We allow the use of nonmotorized 

boats and boats with electric motors 

only; we prohibit the use of gas and 

diesel motors on refuge lakes except in 

the waterfowl hunting area. 

Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel and raccoon on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We seasonally close the refuge to 

the public from November 15 through 

March 15. 

2. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge permit (signed refuge 

brochure) and comply with all permit 

provisions and other applicable State 

and Federal laws. 

3. We allow hunters to access the 

refuge no earlier than 2 hours before 

legal sunrise to no later than 2 hours 

after legal sunset, except that raccoon 

hunters may access the refuge from legal 

sunset to legal sunrise. 

4. We allow horses only on roads 

opened to motorized traffic. We prohibit 

the use of horses and other animal 

conveyances from all other areas 

including fields, woods, and foot trails. 

5. You may take coyote and beaver 

incidental to legal hunting activities 

with legal methods of take for those 

hunts. 

6. We do not open for spring squirrel 

season on the refuge. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow only 

archery hunting for white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: 

Conditions B1 through B5 apply. 


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D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We open all waters of Lake Isom to 

fishing only from March 16 through 

November 14 and from legal sunrise to 

legal sunset. 

2. We allow boats with only electric 

or outboard motors of 10 horsepower or 

less. 

3. We prohibit taking frog or turtle 

from refuge waters. 

4. We allow fishing only with pole 

and line, or rod and reel. 

5. We allow use of a bow and arrow, 

or a gig to take nongame fish on refuge 

waters. 

Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of duck, goose, coot, 

merganser, mourning dove, woodcock, 

and snipe on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We seasonally close the sanctuary 

area of the refuge and the southern unit 

of Sunk Lake Public Use Natural Area 

to the public from November 15 through 

March 15. 

2. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge permit (signed refuge 

brochure) and comply with all permit 

provisions and other applicable State 

and Federal laws. 

3. We allow hunting for duck, goose, 

coot, and merganser from 1⁄2 hour before 

legal sunrise to 12 p.m. (noon) CST. We 

allow hunters to access the refuge no 

earlier than 2 hours before legal sunrise. 

4. We close mourning dove, 

woodcock, and snipe seasons during all 

firearms, youth, and muzzleloader deer 

seasons. 

5. You may use only portable blinds, 

and you must remove all boats, blinds, 

and decoys from the refuge by 1 p.m. 

CST daily. 

6. We close Sunk Lake Public Use 

Natural Area to all migratory game bird 

hunting, and we close the southern unit 

of Sunk Lake Public Use Natural Area 

to all hunting. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel, rabbit, quail, 

raccoon, and opossum on designated 

areas of the refuge in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A2, and A6 apply. 

2. We allow hunters to access the 

refuge no more than 2 hours before legal 

sunrise to no more than 2 hours after 

legal sunset, except that raccoon and 

opossum hunters may access the refuge 

from legal sunset to legal sunrise. 

3. We do not open for spring squirrel 

season on the refuge. 

4. We close squirrel, rabbit, and quail 

seasons during all firearms, youth, and 

muzzleloader deer seasons. 

5. We close raccoon and opossum 

seasons on Friday and Saturday nights 

during all firearms, youth, and 

muzzleloader deer hunts and seasons, 

including the Friday night prior to any 

hunt or season that opens on a Saturday 

morning. 

6. We allow horses only on roads 

open to motorized traffic. We prohibit 

the use of horses and other animal 

conveyances from all other areas 

including fields, woods, and foot trails. 

7. You may take coyote and beaver 

incidental to legal hunting activities 

with legal methods of take for those 

hunts. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A2, A6, B2, B6, and 

B7 apply. 

2. You may participate in the refuge 

quota hunts only with a special quota 

permit (name and address only) issued 

through random drawing. Information 

for permit applications is available at 

the refuge headquarters. 

3. We allow archery deer hunting only 

on the northern unit of Sunk Lake 

Public Use Natural Area. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

and the Sunk Lake Public Use Natural 

Area in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing only from legal 

sunrise to legal sunset. 

2. We allow fishing only with pole 

and line, or rod and reel. 

3. We allow use of a bow and arrow, 

or a gig to take nongame fish on refuge 

waters. 

4. We prohibit taking frog or turtle on 

the refuge. 

5. We seasonally close the sanctuary 

area of the refuge and the southern unit 

of Sunk Lake Public Use Natural Area 

to the public from November 15 through 

March 15. 

6. We allow the use of only 

nonmotorized boats and boats with 

electric motors on Sunk Lake Public Use 

Natural Area. 

Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. 

[Reserved] 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of squirrel and raccoon on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We seasonally close the refuge to 

the public from November 15 through 

March 15. 

2. You must possess and carry a 

signed refuge permit (signed refuge 

brochure) and comply with all permit 

provisions and other applicable State 

and Federal law. 

3. We allow hunters to access the 

refuge no earlier than 2 hours before 

legal sunrise to no later than 2 hours 

after legal sunset, except that raccoon 

hunters may access the refuge from legal 

sunset to legal sunrise. 

4. We allow horses only on roads 

open to motorized traffic. We prohibit 

the use of horses and other animal 

conveyances from all other areas 

including fields, woods, and foot trails. 

5. You may take coyote and beaver 

incidental to legal hunting activities 

with legal methods of take for those 

hunts. 

6. We do not open for spring squirrel 

season on the refuge. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting for white-tailed deer and turkey 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Conditions B1 through B5 apply. 

2. You may participate in the refuge 

firearms deer and turkey quota hunts 

only with a special quota permit (name 

and address only) issued through 

random drawing. Information for permit 

applications is available at the refuge 

headquarters. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow access to the Long Point 

Unit (north of Upper Blue Basin) for 

fishing from March 16 through 

November 14, and the Grassy Island 

Unit (south of Upper Blue Basin) for 

fishing from February 1 through 

November 14. 

2. We allow fishing on the refuge from 

legal sunrise to legal sunset. 

3. We prohibit taking of frog or turtle 

on the refuge. 

4. We prohibit airboats, hovercraft, or 

personal watercraft (e.g., Jet Skis) on any 

waters within the refuge boundary. 

* * * * * 

■ 32. Amend § 32.63 by revising the 

entry Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge 

to read as follows: 

§ 32.63 Texas. 

* * * * * 

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, coot, 

white-winged dove, mourning dove, 

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on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You must carry a current signed 

refuge hunting permit (signed 

brochure—Hunting Regulations) while 

waterfowl hunting on all refuge hunt 

units. 

2. Hunters age 17 and younger must 

be under the direct supervision of an 

adult age 18 or older. 

3. We close refuge hunt units on 

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New 

Year’s Day. 

4. We prohibit the use of airboats, 

marsh buggies, ATVs (see § 27.31(f) of 

this chapter), and personal watercraft. 

5. On inland waters of refuge hunt 

areas open to motorized boats, we 

restrict the operation of motorized boats 

to lakes, ponds, ditches, and other 

waterways. We prohibit the operation of 

motorized boats on or through emergent 

wetland vegetation. 

6. On inland waters of the refuge hunt 

areas open to motorized boats, we 

restrict the use of boats to those 

powered by a single engine of 25 

horsepower or less and utilizing a 

propeller 9 inches (22.5 centimeters) in 

diameter or less. 

7. For waterfowl hunting, we allow 

hunting in portions of the East Unit on 

specified days during the regular 

waterfowl seasons. We prohibit 

motorized boats launching from the East 

Unit. 

8. We allow hunting in portions of the 

Middleton Tract and the Pace Tract 

during early teal season and regular 

waterfowl season during designated 

dates and on designated areas of the 

refuge. 

9. Light goose conservation order will 

be concurrent with State regulations in 

designated areas and on designated 

dates. 

10. We allow dove hunting in 

designated areas and concurrent with 

State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

C. Big Game Hunting. [Reserved] 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing 

and crabbing on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow fishing and crabbing on 

shoreline areas on East Galveston Bay, 

along East Bay Bayou on the East Bay 

Bayou Tract, along West Line Road to 

the southern end of Shoveler Pond, 

along the canal from the Oyster Bayou 

Boat Ramp to the southwest corner of 

Shoveler Pond, and along the banks of 

Shoveler Pond. 

2. We allow fishing and crabbing only 

with pole and line, rod and reel, or 

handheld line. We prohibit the use of 

any method not expressly allowed, 

including trotlines, setlines, jug lines, 

limb lines, bows and arrows, gigs, 

spears, or crab traps. 

3. We allow cast netting for bait for 

personal use along waterways in areas 

open to the public and along public 

roads. 

4. We prohibit boats and other 

floatation devices on inland waters. You 

may launch motorized boats in East Bay 

at the East Bay Boat Ramp on Westline 

Road and at the Oyster Bayou Boat 

Ramp (boat canal). We prohibit the 

launching of airboats or personal 

watercraft on the refuge. You may 

launch nonmotorized boats only along 

East Bay Bayou and along the shoreline 

of East Galveston Bay. 

5. We prohibit fishing from or 

mooring to water control structures. 

* * * * * 

■ 33. Amend § 32.64 by: 

■ a. Under the entry Bear River 

Migratory Bird Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph A.1; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.2, A.3, A.4, 

A.7, A.8, A.10, A.11, A.15, A.16, A.17, 

A.18, A.19, A.20, B.2, and D.4; and 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs A.5, A.6, 

A.9, and A.12 through A.14 as 

paragraphs A.2, A.3, A.4, and A.5 

through A.7, respectively; and 

■ b. Under the entry Ouray National 

Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.3, A.4, A.5, 

A.6, A.8, and A.10; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs A.7 and 

A.9 as paragraphs A.3 and A.4, 

respectively; 

■ iii. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph B; 

■ iv. Removing paragraph B.1; 

■ v. Redesignating paragraphs B.2 

through B.4 as paragraphs B.1 through 

B.3, respectively; 

■ vi. Revising the introductory text of 

paragraph C; 

■ vii. Removing paragraphs C.1 and C.8; 

■ viii. Redesignating paragraphs C.2 

through C.7, and C.9 as paragraphs C.1 

through C.6, and C.7, respectively; and 

■ ix. Revising paragraph D.3. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.64 Utah. 

* * * * * 

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge 

A. * * * 

1. We prohibit hunting or shooting 

within 100 yards (90 m) of refuge roads, 

the D line levee, parking areas, and 

other observation platforms. 

* * * * * 

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of pheasant and turkey in 

designated areas in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer and elk in designated 

areas in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

D. * * * 

3. You must release unharmed any of 

the four federally endangered fish if 

caught (razorback sucker, Colorado pike 

minnow, humpback chub, or bonytail 

chub). 

■ 34. Revise § 32.65 to read as follows: 

§ 32.65 Vermont. 

The following refuge units have been 

opened for hunting and/or fishing, and 

are listed in alphabetical order with 

applicable refuge-specific regulations. 

Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, brant, 

merganser, coot, woodcock, and snipe 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. Waterfowl: For the hunting of 

goose, brant, duck, merganser, and coot, 

we divide the refuge into six discrete 

waterfowl hunting units: the Delta 

Lakeshore Area, the Maquam Shore 

Area, the Saxes Pothole/Creek and Shad 

Island Area, the Junior Waterfowl 

Hunting Area (including Long Marsh 

Bay, Patrick Marsh, and Charcoal 

Creek), the Long Marsh Channel and 

Metcalfe Island Area, and the Maquam 

Swamp Area. See the Missisquoi 

National Wildlife Refuge Migratory 

Game Bird Hunting Map and 

Regulations for further information. 

Conditions for each area are as follows: 

i. Delta Lakeshore Area, which 

includes lakeshore areas from Shad 

Island to the south side of Martindale 

Point but does not include Saxes 

Pothole/Creek and Shad Island Pothole, 

is open to migratory bird hunting with 

the following special requirements: 

a. We do not require a refuge permit 

to hunt or scout in this area. 

b. We prohibit blind staking, 

permanent blinds, and unattended 

decoys. 

ii. Maquam Shore Area encompasses 

a 30-acre area along the lakeshore of 

Maquam Bay and is bounded by private 

land on the west and a Vermont wildlife 

management area on the east. We do not 

require a refuge permit to hunt or scout 

in this area. 

iii. Saxes Pothole/Creek and Shad 

Island Pothole, which encompass Saxes 

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Pothole, are open to migratory bird 

hunting with the following special 

requirements: 

a. This is a controlled hunting area. 

We require a refuge permit to hunt in 

this area. 

b. Each hunting party must possess 

and carry a permit for the specific zone 

on the specific day they are hunting in 

this area. Permits are not transferable. 

c. You must use a retrieving dog. 

iv. Junior Waterfowl Hunting Area, 

which encompasses Long Marsh Bay, 

Patrick Marsh, and that portion of 

Charcoal Creek south of Vermont Route 

78, is open to migratory bird hunting 

with the following special requirements: 

a. This is a controlled hunting area. 

We require a refuge permit to hunt in 

this area. 

b. Each junior hunter must possess 

and carry a permit for the assigned blind 

site and day. On Mentor Day, mentors 

must also possess and carry this permit 

for the assigned blind site. Each adult 

hunting party must possess and carry a 

permit for the blind site and day they 

are hunting. Permits are not 

transferable. 

c. Shooting hours end at 11 a.m. 

v. Long Marsh Channel and Metcalfe 

Island, which encompass the Metcalfe 

Island Pothole and Long Marsh 

Channel, are open to migratory bird 

hunting with the following special 

requirements: 

a. This is a controlled hunting area. 

We require a refuge permit to hunt in 

this area. 

b. We will limit hunting to Tuesdays, 

Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout 

the waterfowl hunting season for duck. 

c. Each hunting party must possess 

and carry a permit for the blind on the 

specific day they are hunting in this 

area. Permits are not transferable. 

d. Shooting hours end at 11 a.m. 

e. You must use a retrieving dog. 

f. We will close this area to waterfowl 

hunting during split seasons when geese 

are the only waterfowl that hunters may 

legally take. 

vi. Maquam Swamp Area 

encompasses about 200 acres (80 

hectares) west of the Central Vermont 

Railroad and south of Coleman’s 

inholding, and is open to migratory bird 

hunting with the following special 

requirements: 

a. We prohibit blind staking, 

permanent blinds, or unattended 

decoys. 

b. You must use a retrieving dog. 

2. Other migratory birds (including 

woodcock, snipe and crow): You may 

hunt woodcock and snipe in the Delta 

Lakeshore Waterfowl Hunting Area, 

excluding the Saxe’s Creek/Pothole and 

Shad Island Pothole controlled areas 

and Maquam Swamp area. We do not 

require a refuge permit to hunt or scout 

in these areas. 

3. On the Eagle Point Unit, we allow 

hunting of migratory birds in 

accordance with State regulations. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of cottontail rabbits, snowshoe 

hare, ruffed grouse, and gray squirrels 

on open areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. You must obtain a permit at refuge 

headquarters prior to hunting, and you 

must hold a valid State hunting license. 

We will collect a fee for each permit we 

issue. The permit applies for the 

calendar year of issue. 

2. We only allow shotguns or 

muzzleloaders on open areas east of the 

Missisquoi River and on Shad Island. 

3. You must use approved nontoxic 

shot for the shotgun hunting of all 

upland game species (see § 32.2(k)). 

4. We prohibit hunting from the end 

of snowshoe hare and rabbit season 

through September 1. 

5. On the Eagle Point Unit, we allow 

hunting in accordance with State 

regulations; conditions B1 through B4 

do not apply on the Eagle Point Unit. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of big game in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow hunting of white-tailed 

deer. 

2. You must obtain a permit at refuge 

headquarters prior to hunting, and you 

must hold a valid State hunting license. 

3. We only allow shotguns, 

muzzleloaders, or archery equipment on 

open areas east and north of Vermont 

Route 78. We prohibit rifles in these 

areas at any time. 

4. You may use portable tree stands in 

accordance with State regulations 

guiding their use on State Wildlife 

Management Areas with the following 

exception: We allow only one tree stand 

or ground blind for each big game/ 

upland game permit we issue. 

5. On the Eagle Point Unit, we allow 

hunting in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

i. You may use portable tree stands in 

accordance with State regulations 

guiding their use on State Wildlife 

Management Areas. We prohibit 

permanent stands and blinds. 

ii. We allow training of hunting dogs 

during the regular hunting seasons as 

regulated by the State. Dog training 

outside the regular hunting seasons 

(June 1 to July 31) will be permitted by 

Special Use Permit (Permit Application 

Form: National Wildlife Refuge System 

General Special Use, FWS Form 3– 

1383–G) only. 

iii. You must request a permit in 

writing from the refuge manager, 

Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

areas described below in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We allow sport fishing by boat 

(including bow fishing) and ice fishing 

in the west branch, east branch, and 

main channel of the Missisquoi River; 

Dead Creek; and shallow water areas of 

the Missisquoi River delta from Goose 

Bay to Charcoal Creek (north of Vermont 

Route 78) with the following exceptions: 

i. We close the following areas from 

ice out to July 15—Goose Bay, Saxes 

Creek and Pothole, Metcalfe Island 

Pothole, Long Marsh Channel, and Clark 

Marsh. 

ii. We close the following areas from 

Labor Day to December 31—Long Marsh 

Bay and Long Marsh Channel. 

2. We allow bank fishing along 

Charcoal Creek where it passes under 

Route 78, and along the shoreline of the 

Missisquoi River from refuge 

headquarters to Mac’s Bend boat launch. 

Bank fishing is accessible only by foot 

along the Missisquoi River from Louie’s 

Landing to Mac’s Bend. 

3. We prohibit taking fish with 

firearms within refuge boundaries. 

4. We allow boat launching from 

Louie’s Landing year-round. We allow 

boat launching from Mac’s Bend boat 

launch area from September through 

November inclusive. 

Silvio O. Conte National Fish and 

Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of ducks, geese, crows, 

and American woodcock at the 

Nulhegan Basin Division and Putney 

Mountain Unit in accordance with State 

of Vermont regulations and subject to 

the following condition: We allow 

disabled hunters to hunt from a vehicle 

on refuge roads if the hunter possesses 

a State-issued disabled hunting license 

in accordance with State regulations 

and a Special Use Permit (FWS Form 3– 

1383–G) issued by the Refuge Manager. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of coyote, fox, raccoon, bobcat, 

woodchuck, red squirrel, eastern gray 

squirrel, porcupine, skunk, snowshoe 

hare, eastern cottontail, and ruffed 

grouse at the Nulhegan Basin Division 

and Putney Mountain Unit in 

accordance with State of Vermont 

regulations, seasons, and bag limits, and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow disabled hunters to hunt 

from a vehicle on refuge roads if the 

hunter possesses a State-issued disabled 


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hunting license in accordance with 

State regulations and a Special Use 

Permit (FWS Form 3–1383–G) issued by 

the Refuge Manager. 

2. To monitor and mitigate potential 

disturbances to wildlife and neighboring 

landowners, we require hunters hunting 

at night to possess a Special Use Permit 

(FWS Form 3–1383–G) issued by the 

Refuge Manager. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer, moose, 

black bear, and wild turkey at the 

Nulhegan Basin Division and Putney 

Mountain Unit in accordance with State 

of Vermont regulations, seasons, and 

bag limits subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We allow disabled hunters to hunt 

from a vehicle on refuge roads if the 

hunter possesses a State-issued disabled 

hunting license in accordance with 

State regulations and a Special Use 

Permit (FWS Form 3–1383–G) issued by 

the Refuge Manager. 

2. You may use portable tree stands 

and blinds in accordance with State 

regulations guiding their use on State 

Wildlife Management Areas, and you 

must remove them by the end of the 

final deer season. 

3. Moose may be retrieved at the 

Nulhegan Basin Division by a 

commercial moose hauler, if the hauler 

possesses a Special Use Permit (FWS 

Form 3–1383–C) issued by the Refuge 

Manager. 

D. Sport Fishing. [Reserved] 

■ 35. Amend § 32.66 by: 

■ a. Revising paragraphs C and D in the 

entry Back Bay National Wildlife 

Refuge; 

■ b. Under the entry Chincoteague 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs A.3, A.4, and 

A.6; 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraph A.5 as 

paragraph A.3; and 

■ iii. Revising paragraphs C and D.1; 

■ c. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

Eastern Shore of Virginia National 

Wildlife Refuge; 

■ d. Under the entry Great Dismal 

Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraphs C and D.1; 

■ ii. Removing paragraph D.3; and 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraph D.4 as 

paragraph D.3; 

■ e. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

James River National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ f. Under the entry Mason Neck 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph C.2; and 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs C.3, C.4, C.5, 

and C.6; 

■ g. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ h. Under the entry Plum Tree Island 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph A.1; and 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs A.4, A.5, and 

A.6; 

■ i. Revising paragraph C in the entry 

Presquile National Wildlife Refuge; 

■ j. Under the entry Rappahannock 

River Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Revising paragraph C; 

■ ii. Removing paragraphs D.6 and D.9; 

and 

■ iii. Redesignating paragraphs D.7 and 

D.8 as paragraphs D.6 and D.7, 

respectively; and 

■ k. Under the entry Wallops Island 

National Wildlife Refuge: 

■ i. Removing paragraphs C.4 and C.6; 

and 

■ ii. Redesignating paragraphs C.5 and 

C.7 as paragraphs C.4 and C.5, 

respectively. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.66 Virginia. 

* * * * * 

Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and feral 

hogs on designated areas of the refuge 

in accordance with State regulations 

and subject to the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit use of dogs. 

2. We allow scouting on designated 

days prior to the start of each refuge 

hunt period. Hunters may enter the hunt 

zones on foot, on bicycle, or through 

transportation provided by the refuge 

only. 

3. Hunters may go to Hunt Zone 1 

(Long Island) only by hand-launched 

watercraft (canoe, punt, rowboat, and 

similar watercraft) from the canoe 

launch at refuge headquarters. We 

prohibit use of trailers. 

4. We prohibit hunting or discharging 

of firearms within designated Safety 

Zones. We prohibit retrieval of 

wounded game from a ‘‘No Hunting 

Area’’ or ‘‘Safety Zone’’ without the 

consent of the refuge employee on duty 

at the check station. 

5. We prohibit use of tree stands, 

except on Long Island (Hunt Zone 1). 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing, 

noncommercial crabbing, and clamming 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We close all areas within the 

hunting zones, as well as the oceanfront, 

to fishing, crabbing, and clamming 

during the annual refuge white-tailed 

deer and feral hog hunt. 

2. You may surf fish, crab, and clam 

south of the refuge’s beach access ramp. 

We allow night surf fishing by Special 

Use Permit (FWS Form 3–1383–G) in 

this area in accordance with dates and 

times designated on the permit. 

3. For sport fishing in D Pool: 

i. We only allow fishing from the 

docks or banks in D Pool. We prohibit 

boats, canoes, or kayaks on D Pool and 

all other refuge pools and 

impoundments. 

ii. We prohibit live minnows or other 

live bait fish. 

iii. We prohibit hooks other than 

barbless or flattened. 

iv. You must catch and release all 

freshwater game fish. The daily creel 

limit for D Pool for other species is a 

maximum combination of any 10 

nongame fish. 

v. Parking for nonambulatory visitors 

only is available adjacent to the dock at 

D Pool. 

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and sika 

with archery tackle and firearms in 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow holders of a refuge hunt 

permit (Quota Deer Hunt Application, 

FWS Form 3–2354) to access areas of 

the refuge typically closed to the 

nonhunting public. All occupants of a 

vehicle or hunt party must possess a 

refuge hunt permit and be actively 

engaged in hunting. We allow an 

exception to exist for those persons 

aiding a disabled person who possesses 

a valid State-issued Commonwealth of 

Virginia Disabled Resident Lifetime 

License or Commonwealth of Virginia 

Resident Disabled Veteran’s Lifetime 

License. 

2. You may not hunt within 100 feet 

(30.5 meters) of any building. 

3. We prohibit deer drives. We define 

a ‘‘drive’’ as four or more persons 

involved in the act of chasing, pursuing, 

disturbing, or otherwise directing deer 

so as to make the animal more 

susceptible to harvest. 

4. You may not hunt, discharge a 

firearm, or nock an arrow or crossbow 

bolt within 50 feet (15.2 meters) of the 

centerline of any road, whether 

improved or unimproved, or paved trail. 

D. * * * 

1. You may not wade or launch a 

vessel in Swan’s Cove Impoundment. 

* * * * * 

Eastern Shore of Virginia National 

Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

archery and shotgun hunting of whitetailed deer on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 


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1. We allow holders of a refuge hunt 

permit (Quota Deer Hunt Application, 

FWS Form 3–2354) to access areas of 

the refuge typically closed to the 

nonhunting public. All occupants of a 

vehicle or hunt party must possess a 

refuge hunt permit and be actively 

engaged in hunting. We allow an 

exception to exist for those persons 

aiding a disabled person who possesses 

a valid State-issued Commonwealth of 

Virginia Disabled Resident Lifetime 

License or Commonwealth of Virginia 

Resident Disabled Veteran’s Lifetime 

License. 

2. You must sign in before entering 

the hunt zones and sign out upon 

leaving the zone. 

3. We prohibit deer drives. We define 

a ‘‘drive’’ as four or more persons 

involved in the act of chasing, pursuing, 

disturbing, or otherwise directing deer 

so as to make the animal more 

susceptible to harvest. 

4. We prohibit nocked arrows or 

loaded firearms outside of the 

designated hunting areas. 

5. We only allow shotguns loaded 

with buckshot during the firearm 

season. 

* * * * * 

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife 

Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer and bear on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following condition: You 

must possess and carry a refuge permit. 

D. * * * 

1. We allow fishing in Lake 

Drummond from a boat and from the 

piers at Washington Ditch and Interior 

Ditch. 

* * * * * 

James River National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require hunters to possess and 

carry a refuge hunting permit. 

2. We require persons who wish to 

hunt during the refuge’s archery season 

to obtain a refuge hunting permit 

through a lottery administered by the 

Virginia Department of Game and 

Inland Fisheries. We notify successful 

applicants by mail or email, and if we 

receive the hunting fee by the date 

identified in the mailing, we mail refuge 

hunting permits to successful 

applicants. 

3. We prohibit dogs. 

4. We require that hunters during 

firearms and muzzleloader seasons 

remain within 100 feet (30 meters) of 

their assigned stand while hunting. 

5. We require that hunters using a 

muzzleloader must hunt from a stand 

elevated 10 feet (3 meters) or more 

above the ground. 

* * * * * 

Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. * * * 

2. Hunters must certify/qualify 

weapons and ammunition and view the 

orientation session online prior to 

issuance of a permit. Consult the refuge 

office or website for certification and 

orientation information and procedures. 

* * * * * 

Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of deer on designated areas of 

the refuge in accordance with State and 

County regulations, and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. You must possess and carry a 

refuge permit. 

2. We select hunters by lottery. 

Consult the refuge office or website for 

application information and procedures. 

3. Hunters must certify/qualify 

weapons and ammunition and view an 

orientation session online prior to 

issuance of a permit. Consult the refuge 

office or website for certification and 

orientation information and procedures. 

* * * * * 

Plum Tree Island National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. * * * 

1. We require hunters to possess and 

carry a refuge hunting permit (see 

condition A2) along with their State 

hunting license and stamps, while 

hunting migratory game birds on the 

refuge. We open the Cow Island unit of 

the refuge only to migratory game bird 

hunting. We close all other areas of the 

refuge to public entry. 

* * * * * 

Presquile National Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require big game hunters to 

obtain a permit through a lottery 

administered by the Virginia 

Department of Game and Inland 

Fisheries. We require a fee to obtain a 

refuge hunting permit. We will notify 

successful applicants by mail or email, 

and if we receive the hunting fee by the 

date identified in the mailing, we will 

mail refuge hunting permits to 

successful applicants. 

2. We prohibit the use of ‘‘deer 

drives,’’ defined as individual or group 

efforts intended to ‘‘push’’ or ‘‘jump’’ 

deer for the purposes of hunting. 

3. We allow shotgun hunting on 

designated days as indicated on refuge 

hunting permits, in the State hunting 

guide, and on the refuge website, 

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/presquile/. 

4. We prohibit dogs. 

5. We require hunters to dock their 

boats at designated locations on the 

refuge. 

* * * * * 

Rappahannock River Valley National 

Wildlife Refuge 

* * * * * 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We require big game hunters to 

obtain a permit. Please contact the 

refuge on how to obtain a permit. 

2. We prohibit dogs. 

* * * * * 

■ 36. Amend § 32.68 by: 

■ a. Revising paragraphs A, B.1, B.4, 

B.5, and C in the entry Canaan Valley 

National Wildlife Refuge; and 

■ b. Revising the entry Ohio River 

Islands National Wildlife Refuge. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.68 West Virginia. 

* * * * * 

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of goose, duck, rail, coot, 

gallinule, mourning dove, snipe, and 

woodcock on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. We require each hunter to possess 

and carry a signed refuge hunting 

permit. 

2. We prohibit camping. We prohibit 

overnight parking except by Special Use 

Permit (FWS Form 3–1383–G) on Forest 

Road 80. 

3. We allow the use of dogs for 

hunting migratory game birds. We 

prohibit more than 2 dogs per hunter. 

We require all dogs to wear a collar 

displaying the owner’s name, address, 

and telephone number. 

4. We prohibit dog training except 

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B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1, A3, and A4 apply. 

* * * * * 

4. You may use dogs for hunting 

upland game species. We prohibit more 

than six dogs per hunting party. All 

dogs must wear a collar displaying the 

owner’s name, address, and telephone 

number. 

5. We prohibit the hunting of upland 

game species between March 1 and 

August 31. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow the 

hunting of white-tailed deer, black bear, 

and turkey on designated areas of the 

refuge in accordance with State 

regulations and subject to the following 

conditions: 

1. Conditions A1, A3, A4, and B3 

apply. 

2. We prohibit permanent tree stands, 

but we allow use of temporary tree 

stands. You must clearly print your 

name and address in an easily read area 

on the stand while the stand is affixed 

to the tree. You must remove tree stands 

(see § 27.93 of this chapter) at the end 

of the deer season. 

3. We prohibit hunting for turkey with 

a rifle. You must use a shotgun or 

muzzleloader with a shot size of #4 or 

smaller. 

4. We allow dogs for hunting black 

bear during the gun season. We prohibit 

more than six dogs per hunting party. 

All dogs must wear a collar displaying 

the owner’s name, address, and 

telephone number. 

* * * * * 

Ohio River Islands National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

(waterfowl, coots, rails, gallinules, 

snipe, woodcock, and dove) on 

designated areas of the refuge 

(Pennsylvania: Phillis Island, 

Georgetown Island; West Virginia: 

Captina Island, Captina Mainland, Fish 

Creek Island, Williamson Island, Witten 

Towhead, Wells Island, Grandview 

Island, Grape/Bat Island, Broadback 

Island, Buckley Island, Muskingum 

Island, Buffington Island, Letart Island; 

and Kentucky: Manchester 1 Island, 

Manchester 2 Island) in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. We require each hunter to possess 

and carry a signed refuge hunting 

permit; the free refuge hunting permit is 

available to download from the refuge 

website and at the refuge headquarters. 

2. The refuge opens 1 hour before 

legal sunrise and closes 1 hour after 

legal sunset, including parking areas. 

3. We only allow dogs to locate, point, 

and retrieve when hunting for migratory 

game birds. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of rabbit and squirrel on 

designated areas of the refuge 

(Pennsylvania: Phillis Island, 

Georgetown Island; West Virginia: 

Captina Island, Captina Mainland, Fish 

Creek Island, Williamson Island, Witten 

Towhead, Wells Island, Grandview 

Island, Grape/Bat Island, Broadback 

Island, Buckley Island, Muskingum 

Island, Buffington Island, Letart Island; 

and Kentucky: Manchester 1 Island, 

Manchester 2 Island) in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We prohibit the use of pursuit dogs 

for hunting rabbit or squirrel. 

3. We prohibit the use of rifles, 

muzzleloaders, or pistols for hunting 

rabbit or squirrel. 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer only by 

archery on designated areas of the 

refuge (Pennsylvania: Phillis Island, 

Georgetown Island; West Virginia: 

Paden Island, Captina Island, Captina 

Mainland, Fish Creek Island, 

Williamson Island, Witten Towhead, 

Wells Island, Mill Creek Island, 

Grandview Island, Grape/Bat Island, 

zoned area of Middle Island, Broadback 

Island, Buckley Island, Buckley 

Mainland, Muskingum Island, Neal 

Island, Buffington Island, Letart Island; 

and Kentucky: Manchester 1 Island, 

Manchester 2 Island) in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following conditions: 

1. Conditions A1 and A2 apply. 

2. We prohibit organized deer drives 

by two or more individuals. We define 

a deer drive as the act of chasing, 

pursuing, disturbing, or otherwise 

directing deer so as to make the animals 

more susceptible to harvest. 

3. We only allow the use of temporary 

tree stands and blinds, which must be 

removed at the end of each hunt day. 

All tree stands and blinds must have the 

name and address of the owner clearly 

printed in an easily readable area. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing throughout the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. Condition A2 applies. 

2. We prohibit trotlines (setlines) and 

turtle lines. 

■ 37. Amend § 32.69 by: 

■ a. Adding an entry, in alphabetical 

order, for Hackmatack National Wildlife 

Refuge; 

■ b. Revising paragraph D in the entry 

St. Croix Wetland Management District; 

and 

■ c. Revising the entry Trempealeau 

National Wildlife Refuge. 

The addition and revisions read as 

follows: 

§ 32.69 Wisconsin. 

* * * * * 

Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge 

Refer to § 32.32 Illinois for 

regulations. 

* * * * * 

St. Croix Wetland Management District 

* * * * * 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow sport 

fishing on Waterfowl Production Areas 

throughout the District in accordance 

with State regulations and subject to the 

following condition: We prohibit the 

use of motorized boats. 

Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge 

A. Migratory Game Bird Hunting. We 

allow hunting of migratory game birds 

on designated areas of the refuge in 

accordance with State regulations and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow hunting of ducks, 

mergansers, geese, coots, mourning 

dove, sora, Virginia rail, woodcock, 

snipe, and crow on refuge lands north 

of the main channel of the Trempealeau 

River and north of State Highway 35/54, 

subject to the following conditions: 

i. We allow only the use of portable 

or temporary blinds. 

ii. We allow the use of hunting dogs 

for bird hunting, provided the dog is 

under the immediate control of the 

hunter at all times. 

2. We allow hunting of ducks, 

mergansers, geese, and coots on refuge 

lands south of the main channel of the 

Trempealeau River and south of State 

Highway 35/54, subject to the following 

condition: We require a refuge permit. 

B. Upland Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of wild turkey, ruffed grouse, 

ring-necked pheasant, bobwhite quail, 

Hungarian partridge, sharp-tailed 

grouse, coyote, gray and red fox, bobcat, 

raccoon, snowshoe hare, cottontail 

rabbit, and gray and red squirrel only on 

refuge land north of the main channel 

of the Trempealeau River and north of 

State Highway 35/54 in accordance with 

State regulations and subject to the 

following condition: Conditions A.1.i 

and A.1.ii apply on the refuge (see 

§ 32.2(k)). 

C. Big Game Hunting. We allow 

hunting of white-tailed deer on 

designated areas of the refuge subject to 

the following conditions: 

1. We prohibit the use of rifles for 

deer hunting on all refuge land south of 

the main channel of the Trempealeau 

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2. On refuge land north of the main 

channel of the Trempealeau River and 

north of State Highway 35/54, we allow 

white-tailed deer hunting during the 

state archery, muzzleloader, and 

firearms seasons. We allow hunting 

during the Youth Gun Deer Hunt and 

the Gun Hunt for Hunters with 

Disabilities in accordance with State 

regulations. 

3. On refuge land south of the main 

channel of the Trempealeau River and 

south of State Highway 35/54, we allow 

white-tailed deer hunting only by refuge 

permit. 

D. Sport Fishing. We allow fishing on 

designated areas of the refuge from legal 

sunrise to legal sunset in accordance 

with State laws for inland waters and 

subject to the following conditions: 

1. We allow only boats propelled by 

hand or electric motors on refuge pools. 

We do not prohibit the possession of 

other watercraft motors, only their use. 

2. We prohibit harvest of turtle. 

3. We prohibit night-lighting, archery, 

spearing, or netting of fish. 

* * * * * 

■ 38. Amend § 32.70, under the entry 

Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife 

Refuge, by: 

■ a. Revising paragraph A.1; 

■ b. Removing paragraphs A.2, A.3, A.4, 

A.5, A.6, A.7, and A.9; 

■ c. Redesignating paragraphs A.8, A.10, 

and A.11 as paragraphs A.2, A.3, and 

A.4, respectively; 

■ d. Revising paragraph B.1; 

■ e. Removing paragraphs B.2 and B.5; 

■ f. Redesignating paragraphs B.3 and 

B.4 as paragraphs B.2 and B.3, 

respectively; 

■ g. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraph B.3, and paragraph C.1; and 

■ h. Removing paragraphs C.2 and C.3. 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 32.70 Wyoming. 

* * * * * 

Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife 

Refuge 

A. * * * 

1. We prohibit hunting in areas of the 

refuge indicated on the Cokeville 

Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 

Hunting Brochure and marked by signs 

as closed to all hunting or closed to 

migratory bird hunting. 

* * * * * 

B. * * * 

1. Conditions A1, A3, and A4 apply. 

* * * * * 

3. Red fox, raccoon, and striped skunk 

may be taken on the refuge by licensed 

migratory bird, big game, or upland/ 

small game hunters from September 1 

until the end of the last open big game, 

upland bird, or small game season. Red 

fox, raccoon, or striped skunk that are 

harvested must be taken into possession 

and removed from the refuge. 

C. * * * 

1. Conditions A1, A3, and A4 apply. 

* * * * * 

Dated: August 22, 2018. 

Andrea Travnicek, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Water 

and Science, Exercising the Authority of the 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19173 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am] 

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