Game refuge

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John's Game Refuge in Stearns County is open to archery deer hunting and firearms deer and bear hunting during the established seasons, by written permission of the landowner. Cloud Game Refuge, Stearns County. Cloud Game Refuge in Stearns County is open to taking deer and bear by archery.

Louis County. Louis County are open November 25 through May 15 for trapping any species for which there is an open season. The Camp Ripley Military Reservation Game Refuge is open April 28 and 29 for spring turkey hunting to individuals with disabilities participating in a special hunt sponsored by Veterans Outdoor Programs.

The refuge is open May 3 and 4 and May 10 and 11 for spring turkey hunting to members of the military and their children participating in a special hunt sponsored by the Camp Ripley Environmental Office. Butterball Game Refuge, St. The Butterball Game Refuge in St. Louis County is open November 25 through May 15 for trapping of any species for which there is an open season.

Little Rice Game Refuge, St. Notes Minn. The following state regulations pages link to this page. Subpart 1. Canada goose hunting during the early goose season. Many of these areas currently lack sufficient signage, and are not known to hunters who are hunting in unfamiliar grounds. Note the refuges are called "districts" in the statute e. Because they are not wildlife refuges. These State Game Refuges are a refuge in name only. The lands within the somewhat arbitrary boundaries are simply "no hunting" areas while all other land management activities and practices of the landowner are possible whether they benefit wildlife or not.

These areas are not managed for wildlife refuge purposes as are federal Fish and Wildlife Service refuges or state Wildlife Areas. The areas were established around the state during the 's with the intent to protect deer primarily from being overexploited during the period of early regulation and enforcement of game laws.

The 's were the end of "market hunting" of game species and the beginning of active conservation. It was hoped that deer would reproduce and expand out from these refuges and repopulate other areas where deer were actively hunted. However, in the intervening years or so, deer managers and researchers have learned that deer populations do not behave that way and instead show a high fidelity to traditional winter and summer ranges. The deer populations in California have declined dramatically in the state since the s.

This decline was predicted as early as , and certainly was evident during the early s when deer populations were severely exceeding the carrying capacity of their ranges resulting in severe overutilization of their ranges.

Additionally, since the establishment of these areas, game laws and regulations have increasingly regulated and protected deer. There is no risk of hunting having a detrimental effect on deer populations, especially because California is largely a "bucks only" hunting system reasons for that are a story in itself.

In California, increasing acreages of land have been removed as huntable lands in this state since the refuges were established.

Because lichens, the primary winter food of caribou, regrow slowly, caribou must move around and use different areas in different years. Caribou survival thus depends on making sure that favored habitats are not impacted. Caribou also use the area for the fall rut.

The area is important for other wildlife as well—from moose to fox, from trumpeter swan to arctic warbler, from burbot to grayling.

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