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H$US opposes expanded hunting areas

PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:30 pm
by Tim Nunan
Animal rights group blasts hunting plan
By Jon Brodkin / Daily News Staff
Friday, August 12, 2005
The nation's largest animal protection organization is trying to block plans to allow hunting on the Great Meadows and Assabet River national wildlife refuges.

The Humane Society of the United States, which opposes all hunting on wildlife refuges, says plans to expand refuge hunting in Massachusetts and nine other states violate federal law because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has not completed environmental impact statements.

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