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2023-07-14 23:34:32 UTC
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-takes-aim-hunters-latest-
regulation-preventing-americans-from-hunting
Biden admin's action will 'create substantial cost barriers' for hunters
across the country, expert tells Fox News Digital
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it is moving ahead with
prohibitions on the type of equipment hunters are allowed to use on
federal refuges, a move strongly opposed by sportsmen groups.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its 2023-2024 hunting
and fishing rule an annual plan laying out regulations for the upcoming
hunting season banning cost-effective lead ammunition and fishing tackle
across eight national wildlife refuges by 2026. Such an action has been
supported by eco groups, but opposed by hunters, who argue that it could
serve as a backdoor attack on hunting broadly.
"This is the latest example of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service creating
rules that punish hunters, threaten conservation funding and advance
special interests without sound scientific evidence that traditional lead
ammunition cause is causing detrimental wildlife population impacts," said
Lawrence Keane, the senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports
Foundation.
"This administration is ignoring its promise to follow the science. In
fact, it is ignoring the need for scientific evidence in order to advance
an anti-gun and anti-hunting agenda," he continued.
BIDEN ADMIN BACKS DOWN FROM SWEEPING EV PROPOSAL AFTER SAYING IT WOULD
BOOST ENERGY SECURITY
Under the FWS rule proposed Thursday, sportsmen will be prohibited from
using lead ammunition or tackle across eight federally managed refuges
Blackwater in Maryland, Chincoteague in Virginia, Eastern Neck in
Maryland, Erie in Pennsylvania, Great Thicket in Massachusetts, Patuxent
Research Refuge in Maryland, Rachel Carson in Maine and Wallops Island
Nation in Virginia beginning on Sept. 1, 2026.
In its announcement, the FWS said it had formulated the rule using the
"best available science," which demonstrates negative impacts of lead
equipment on human health and wildlife.
The agency's 2022-2023 hunting and fishing rule, which was finalized in
September 2022, only banned lead ammunition throughout the Patoka National
Wildlife Refuge in southern Indiana.
REPUBLICANS ACCELERATE INVESTIGATION INTO FOREIGN INFLUENCE OF US CLIMATE
GROUPS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
"Todays Fish and Wildlife Service proposed rule shows that the Biden
administration seeks credit for expanding hunting and fishing access on
public land while the lead ammunition and tackle bans threaten the exact
opposite outcome," Benjamin Cassidy, executive vice president for
international government and public affairs at Safari Club International
and a former senior Interior Department official, told Fox News Digital.
"Lead ammunition and tackle bans create substantial cost barriers for
sportsmen and women across the country, preventing Americans from hunting
and fishing on our public lands," Cassidy said.
In 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity an influential
environmental group with assets exceeding $40 million that advocates for
stringent federal wildlife protections sued the federal government over
a Trump administration rule expanding hunting and fishing on 2.3 million
acres across 147 wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries.
CONSERVATION GROUPS FIGHT BACK AGAINST BIDEN ADMIN'S 'MISGUIDED'
REGULATION EFFORTS ON HUNTING, FISHING
Instead of defending the rule, the Biden administration asked the court to
delay proceedings in the case in February 2022, and in November it agreed
to a settlement with the group that stipulated the government would take
wide-ranging steps to protect wildlife "harmed by expanded hunting and
fishing" on national wildlife refuges.
Under the settlement, the FWS promised to expand lead ammunition
prohibitions in its 2023-2024 annual rule, the plan proposed Thursday.
"While we appreciate USFWSs focus on expanding fishing access for the
nations 52 million anglers, it is deeply disappointing to see the
continuation of baseless and harmful restrictions on the types of tackle
they can use," said American Sportfishing Association vice president of
government affairs Mike Leonard.
"As we have stated in our industry position statement, restrictions on
lead fishing tackle must be based on sound science documenting that lead
tackle has an impact on specific wildlife populations and developed in
conjunction with state fish and wildlife agencies," Leonard continued. "We
have repeatedly sought that evidence from USFWS but have yet to receive
it."
Hunting groups also urged Congress to work quickly to pass the Protecting
Access for Hunters and Anglers Act, which Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and
22 fellow Republicans introduced in April. The legislation would block the
FWS, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management from banning lead
ammunition or tackle unless such an action were supported by the best
available science.
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Biden admin's action will 'create substantial cost barriers' for hunters
across the country, expert tells Fox News Digital
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it is moving ahead with
prohibitions on the type of equipment hunters are allowed to use on
federal refuges, a move strongly opposed by sportsmen groups.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its 2023-2024 hunting
and fishing rule an annual plan laying out regulations for the upcoming
hunting season banning cost-effective lead ammunition and fishing tackle
across eight national wildlife refuges by 2026. Such an action has been
supported by eco groups, but opposed by hunters, who argue that it could
serve as a backdoor attack on hunting broadly.
"This is the latest example of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service creating
rules that punish hunters, threaten conservation funding and advance
special interests without sound scientific evidence that traditional lead
ammunition cause is causing detrimental wildlife population impacts," said
Lawrence Keane, the senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports
Foundation.
"This administration is ignoring its promise to follow the science. In
fact, it is ignoring the need for scientific evidence in order to advance
an anti-gun and anti-hunting agenda," he continued.
BIDEN ADMIN BACKS DOWN FROM SWEEPING EV PROPOSAL AFTER SAYING IT WOULD
BOOST ENERGY SECURITY
Under the FWS rule proposed Thursday, sportsmen will be prohibited from
using lead ammunition or tackle across eight federally managed refuges
Blackwater in Maryland, Chincoteague in Virginia, Eastern Neck in
Maryland, Erie in Pennsylvania, Great Thicket in Massachusetts, Patuxent
Research Refuge in Maryland, Rachel Carson in Maine and Wallops Island
Nation in Virginia beginning on Sept. 1, 2026.
In its announcement, the FWS said it had formulated the rule using the
"best available science," which demonstrates negative impacts of lead
equipment on human health and wildlife.
The agency's 2022-2023 hunting and fishing rule, which was finalized in
September 2022, only banned lead ammunition throughout the Patoka National
Wildlife Refuge in southern Indiana.
REPUBLICANS ACCELERATE INVESTIGATION INTO FOREIGN INFLUENCE OF US CLIMATE
GROUPS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
"Todays Fish and Wildlife Service proposed rule shows that the Biden
administration seeks credit for expanding hunting and fishing access on
public land while the lead ammunition and tackle bans threaten the exact
opposite outcome," Benjamin Cassidy, executive vice president for
international government and public affairs at Safari Club International
and a former senior Interior Department official, told Fox News Digital.
"Lead ammunition and tackle bans create substantial cost barriers for
sportsmen and women across the country, preventing Americans from hunting
and fishing on our public lands," Cassidy said.
In 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity an influential
environmental group with assets exceeding $40 million that advocates for
stringent federal wildlife protections sued the federal government over
a Trump administration rule expanding hunting and fishing on 2.3 million
acres across 147 wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries.
CONSERVATION GROUPS FIGHT BACK AGAINST BIDEN ADMIN'S 'MISGUIDED'
REGULATION EFFORTS ON HUNTING, FISHING
Instead of defending the rule, the Biden administration asked the court to
delay proceedings in the case in February 2022, and in November it agreed
to a settlement with the group that stipulated the government would take
wide-ranging steps to protect wildlife "harmed by expanded hunting and
fishing" on national wildlife refuges.
Under the settlement, the FWS promised to expand lead ammunition
prohibitions in its 2023-2024 annual rule, the plan proposed Thursday.
"While we appreciate USFWSs focus on expanding fishing access for the
nations 52 million anglers, it is deeply disappointing to see the
continuation of baseless and harmful restrictions on the types of tackle
they can use," said American Sportfishing Association vice president of
government affairs Mike Leonard.
"As we have stated in our industry position statement, restrictions on
lead fishing tackle must be based on sound science documenting that lead
tackle has an impact on specific wildlife populations and developed in
conjunction with state fish and wildlife agencies," Leonard continued. "We
have repeatedly sought that evidence from USFWS but have yet to receive
it."
Hunting groups also urged Congress to work quickly to pass the Protecting
Access for Hunters and Anglers Act, which Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and
22 fellow Republicans introduced in April. The legislation would block the
FWS, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management from banning lead
ammunition or tackle unless such an action were supported by the best
available science.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.