The National Wildlife Refuge System created by Hunters under attack to ban hunting.

The birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System happened in 1903, when President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter himself, established the first national wildlife refuge on Florida’s Pelican Island. “Hunters have been involved in every single refuge establishment since then,” Backcounty Hunters and Anglers’s Director and CEO, Land Tawney says, explaining that the refuge system could never have grown or continued without the funds generated by hunters in the form of excise taxes and the federal duck stamp. “And because we utilize wildlife refuges almost every single day of the year, we have a compatible, shared interest in how these areas are managed.

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