Well I dont know about anywhere else around the country but around where I live all the National Wildlife Refuges are shut down cause the government cant agree on how to spend the money it doesn't have. With the season opener approaching quickly, these suit and tie guys need to come back from their paid vacation and get to work so the rest of us who ARE busy working can have a little fun in the duck blind in our off time!


By the way, some of the best hunting land around here is on those NWR's and with them closed we, the WMA'a are gonna be overloaded with people to the point where you will be lucky to even see a duck this season.

Our governor told feds off. Scott Walker doesn't take shit.

Despite receiving a closure directive from the National Park Service, Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has decided instead that parks partly funded by the federal government would stay open to the public.



In the wake of this week’s federal government shutdown, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also placed barricades by a boat launch on the Mississippi River because it was on federal land. Wisconsin’s natural resources agency reopened it.

State officials said they had legal authority to remove the barricades at the boat landing because of an agreement Wisconsin has had with the federal government since 1961.

Stepp said the federal funding amounts to just 18 percent of the budget for the state parks affected.

The move highlights efforts by Walker, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, and other Republican governors to portray them as problem solvers as voters grow increasingly angry at dysfunction in Washington, D.C.

The shutdown has caused increased confusion among Wisconsinites, Stepp said.

“They don’t know the difference between a nationally owned property or state-owned property. It really doesn’t matter to them. It’s just a park to them. They want to make sure they can still have their weddings or family reunions or whatever events they have got without getting smeared in messy politics in Washington.”