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2024-2025 Hunting Update

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD.GOV) recently posted their 2024-2025 hunting regulations (https://www.azgfd.com/hunting/regulations/);There is an error on the published hunting season dates for coyote and fox hunting season for Kofa and Imperial National Wildlife Refuges. Kofa and Imperial National Wildlife Refuges will allow hunting for coyotes and gray foxes but only during the quail season. Quail, fox, and coyote season runs from Oct. 18, 2024 to Feb. 9, 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at (928) 793-7861 or SWAZ@FWS.GOV.

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2024-2025 Hunting Update

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD.GOV) recently posted their 2024-2025 hunting regulations (https://www.azgfd.com/hunting/regulations/);There is an error on the published hunting season dates for coyote and fox hunting season for Kofa and Imperial National Wildlife Refuges. Kofa and Imperial National Wildlife Refuges will allow hunting for coyotes and gray foxes but only during the quail season. Quail, fox, and coyote season runs from Oct. 18, 2024 to Feb. 9, 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at (928) 928-6873 or SWAZ@FWS.GOV.

Imperial National Wildlife Refuge was established by Executive Order 8685 on February 14, 1941. The 25,768-acre refuge protects 30 miles of wildlife habitat along the lower Colorado River.
Bureau of Reclamation to Begin Clearing Vegetation Near Gauge Off Main River Channel 10/9/2024

Please be advised, starting this Wednesday (10/9/2024) our partner's at the Bureau of Reclamation will be doing some clearing of vegetation near the river gauge off the main river channel. For more information please visit our partner's website https://www.usbr.gov/lc/yuma/

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Visitors have an opportunity to connect with nature in multiple ways. The lower Colorado River and its backwaters provide numerous outdoor recreational opportunities as well as a vital resource, water! 

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      Migratory birds, resident wildlife, and endangered and threatened species can be found at Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge contains backwaters that provide key habitat for wildlife. Because of the river's life sustaining water, wildlife thrives in this environment where temperatures reach 120 degrees in the summer and the average rainfall is two inches per year. 

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