WildlifeChase is now live. The site brings together the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s open data for the 2026–2027 season in one place:
- 606 refuge, wetland management district and hatchery guides, each with a hunt-unit map on USGS topo and satellite imagery
- 2,215 hunt units with their 2026–2027 status: 275 open, 1,199 open with special regulations and 741 closed
- 3,251 named Waterfowl Production Areas covering about 815K acres
- Sunrise, sunset and shooting-hour tables for every location, plus live National Weather Service forecasts
- KML, GPX and GeoJSON downloads so you can carry unit boundaries in your GPS or mapping app
Where the data comes from
Everything on refuge pages comes from official USFWS datasets: the National Hunt Units layer, the Hunting and Fishing Opportunities layer, and the realty boundaries and tracts that show which land the government owns. The data sources page explains how we process it.
What’s next
We’ll keep adding guides, refining maps and logging every significant change on this page. If you know a refuge well and spot something that doesn’t match the ground, please let us know.
Keep reading
How to Hunt National Wildlife Refuges: A Complete Guide
Step-by-step: find a refuge that allows your game, read hunt unit maps, get licenses and permits, and follow refuge-specific…
Hunt Unit Status: Open vs. Special Regulations vs. Closed
What each hunt-unit status in the national dataset means, and how to find the rules that apply.
Scouting Public Land with Satellite & Topo Maps
Use satellite imagery, USGS topo and KML/GPX downloads to e-scout refuges and WPAs before you go.