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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 470149" data-attributes="member: 605"><img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1OPUWM.img?w=768&h=328&m=6&x=593&y=170&s=268&d=268" alt="Trump Makes Announcement From White House's Oval Office ©(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)'s Oval Office ©(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />As the shutdown leaves thousands of federal workers furloughed, American hunters won’t see their way of life threatened thanks to a fantastic move from the Trump administration.President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow hunting on the nearly 600 <a href="https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wildlife-refuge-system" target="_blank">National Wildlife Refuges</a> across the country amid the shutdown that has left many of the agency’s employees furloughed, The Washington Post (WaPo) <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/18/shutdown-wildlife-refuges-open-hunting/" target="_blank">reported</a> Sunday.According to the plan, refuge law enforcement officers will be exempt from the furlough in addition to at least one employee who will remain on site for safety purposes. The visitor centers will stay closed for the time being, but the hunts will go on as planned. Of course, WaPo framed the story as yet another example of the Trump administration’s scattershot, unfair approach to the shutdown. Military service members are still getting their checks, but EPA permitting approvals have come to a halt? For WaPo, it’s political malice; for the rest of America, it sounds pretty fair.Desiree Sorenson-Groves, president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association, complained that Trump’s hunting directive will only incentivize bad actors. She seems to believe that hunters must proceed through a check-out line when they leave the woods as if they had just shopped at a grocery store.“People will go out and do illegal hunting. People will go out and trespass,” she told the outlet. “For hunting, we don’t let people police themselves, right? We don’t say: ‘Here’s your online tag for your deer. We trust you to just go get one deer.'”But why shouldn’t Americans be allowed to hunt without useless federal employees breathing down their necks?Hunters are some of the most responsible people in the country. They are true experts, they exercise caution, and they have a tremendous amount of respect for animals and our beautiful natural environment. Certainly, they are better stewards of the land than the bureaucrats in Washington.</blockquote>

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