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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.

Kofa National Wildlife Refuge was established from public lands on January 25, 1939, by Executive Order 8039 for the protection of desert bighorn sheep.
Kofa Hunting Regulations (Coyote & Fox Specific)

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD.GOV) recently posted their 2024-2025 hunting regulations; however, they erroneously published the coyote and fox hunting season from Oct. 11, 2024 - Feb. 9, 2025, 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 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

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National wildlife refuges offer us all a chance to unplug from the stresses of daily life and reconnect with our natural surroundings. Visitors have an opportunity to connect with nature in many ways. The vast landscape and the solitude of Wilderness provide unique recreational opportunities. 

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      Kofa National Wildlife Refuge was established from public lands on January 25, 1939, by Executive Order 8039 for the protection of desert bighorn sheep. Over 80 percent of the refuge is wilderness. The refuge offers vast lands to explore and appreciate.

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      Refuges use a wide range of land management tools based on the best science available. Management tools used are aimed at ensuring a balanced conservation approach where both wildlife and people will benefit. At this field station, most management practices are passive in nature for the benefit of Wilderness. 

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      Scanning the horizon, the desert can appear devoid of animal life. Yet upon closer inspection, it reveals burrows among bushes, rocks and on the open plains - homes to badgers, foxes, ground squirrels, pocket mice, and kangaroo rats. The vast desert environment is home to numerous mammal species, the majority of which are nocturnal and forage at night while the temperatures is cooler.

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