National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Compliance for Hunting Programs

In response to litigation by The Fund for Animals, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to revise environmental assessments completed for hunting programs on 74 national wildlife refuges. Nine of those refuges are in the Midwest Region.

Revised environmental assessments and the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for these refuges are provided below in .pdf format.

Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge:
Final Environmental Assessment for Proposed Hunting Plan (3.5 MB)
FONSI for EA (94 KB)

Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge:
Final Environmental Assessment for the Hunting and Fishing Plan (1.2 MB)
FONSI (87 KB)

Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge:
Environmental Assessment, Deer Hunting (955 KB)
FONSI for Deer Hunting EA (85 KB)
Environmental Assessment, Waterfowl Hunting (951 KB)
FONSI for Waterfowl Hunting EA (85 KB)

DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge:
Environmental Assessment for Ring-necked Pheasant and Wild Turkey Hunting (52 KB)
FONSI (86KB)

Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge:
Revised Environmental Assessment for the Hunting Plan (247 KB)
FONSI (79 KB)

Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge:
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Hunt Plan (565 KB)
FONSI (88 KB)

Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge:
Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Hunt Plan (536 KB)
FONSI (92 KB)
Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge:
Environmental Assessment for Implementation of a Light Goose Hunting Plan (266 KB)
FONSI (87 KB)

Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge:
Revised Supplement to the Environmental Assessment for Public Use Plan (404 KB)
FONSI (90 KB)