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Trump finally finds someone to strip guns from: managers at federal wildlife refuges!
The pro-poacher presidency!
Trump administration abruptly ends key law enforcement program at wildlife refuges
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/409455-trump-administration-ends-key-law-enforcement-program-at-wildlife?userid=214837
The Trump administration is abruptly ending a decades-long program that trained national wildlife refuge managers with law enforcement capabilities to police often remote spots of public land.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced to employees on Sept. 21 that refuge managers who were also trained to police the area would no longer be able to act in any enforcement capacity and would be stripped of their firearm, according to an internal FWS email shared with The Hill.
Sources said the decision came as a shock to many of the people who have worked in the position, known as dual-function officers, including retirees who had spent decades in the role at their respective refuges.
Critics argued it would lead to new violations in the refuges.
It means there will be lots of violations, wildlife violations as in over-bagged hunting areas, damaged fences, signs, roads and all kinds of damage to the environment. If there is no one there to enforce the law, that would spread like wildfire, said Kim Hanson, who retired from FWS in 2008 after more than 30 years at the agency. Its an extreme disservice to the American people because they expect us to take care.
The nation has 562 national wildlife refuges spread across 20.6 million acres of public land. Unlike national parks, mining, drilling, hunting and farming are all regulated activities on certain refuges.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced to employees on Sept. 21 that refuge managers who were also trained to police the area would no longer be able to act in any enforcement capacity and would be stripped of their firearm, according to an internal FWS email shared with The Hill.
Sources said the decision came as a shock to many of the people who have worked in the position, known as dual-function officers, including retirees who had spent decades in the role at their respective refuges.
Critics argued it would lead to new violations in the refuges.
It means there will be lots of violations, wildlife violations as in over-bagged hunting areas, damaged fences, signs, roads and all kinds of damage to the environment. If there is no one there to enforce the law, that would spread like wildfire, said Kim Hanson, who retired from FWS in 2008 after more than 30 years at the agency. Its an extreme disservice to the American people because they expect us to take care.
The nation has 562 national wildlife refuges spread across 20.6 million acres of public land. Unlike national parks, mining, drilling, hunting and farming are all regulated activities on certain refuges.
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Trump finally finds someone to strip guns from: managers at federal wildlife refuges! (Original Post)
CousinIT
Oct 2018
OP
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)1. OMFG! It's not Hillary or Obama coming for their guns. It's Traitor don
Sugarcoated
(7,728 posts)2. Rape and pillage.
That's all they stand for. #locktheuptheGOP #GOPpartyofcorruption #crookeddonaldtrump #lockhislyingassup
roamer65
(36,747 posts)3. It's revenge for his white supremacist buddies like Finicum and the Bundy's.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)5. Kick for more eyes. This is so disgusting...
It's like whatever evil, anti-environmental, anti-earth thing they can think of, they do.