📰 News & site updates

Season notes for refuge hunters, data refreshes and changes to WildlifeChase. We log every significant update here so you know how current the maps and guides are.

  1. 🕐 Daylight saving time ends Nov. 1 — how shooting light shifts

    When clocks fall back on Sunday, November 1, 2026, legal shooting light comes an hour earlier on the clock. Here's what that means for refuge hunters.

  2. 🛠️ Site update: county WPA guides, refuge analysis and 16 new hunting guides

    We consolidated thousands of thin pages into richer refuge and county guides, added unit-by-unit analysis and published 16 in-depth guides for refuge hunters.

  3. 🚀 WildlifeChase launches with 2026–27 refuge hunt-unit maps

    WildlifeChase is live, with hunt-unit maps, permits and directions for National Wildlife Refuges built from the USFWS 2026–2027 data.