U.S. National Wildlife Refuge Fishing and Hunting Areas for Fiscal Year 2015

A dataset from the Department of the Interior identifies areas open and closed to hunting and fishing on National Wildlife Refuges and Wetland Management Districts for fiscal year 2015. It was created in accordance with the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, which established reporting requirements for Migratory Bird Conservation Fund expenditures. The data is available in XML, ZIP, and via API formats.

Use Cases

• Map public access to recreational hunting based on refuge boundaries mentioned in the description
• Analyze fishing opportunity distribution across wetland management districts
• Track conservation easement acquisition funding linked to Duck Stamp sales as described in the Act

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific federal reporting requirement (Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014)
• Covers a defined fiscal year (2015) for temporal consistency
• Published by the authoritative Department of the Interior

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2026 03 04 08 08 59 577269; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Likely compiled from administrative records to meet federal reporting requirements.

Time Range

Fiscal year 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 08:08:59.577269

Geography

National Wildlife Refuges and Wetland Management Districts across the United States