Budget Increase for National Refuges Urged
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Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton announced a proposed $56.5-million increase for the national wildlife refuge system, an 18% hike she said is necessary to cover maintenance and renovation at the 538 refuges across the nation.
The San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge would receive $1.1 million under the proposed budget that starts Oct. 1.
The proposed increase would be the largest in seven years. This year’s budget was $319 million.
The announcement came less than a week after Norton said oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska would not compromise the country’s international treaty obligations to protect polar bears in the refuge.
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