As families use the long weekend to take trips to one of 548 national wildlife refuges, what they might find instead is a hiding place for criminal activity and neglected trails and visitor centers.
According to the National Refuge Association, the nation's refuges are underfunded by as much as 43%. As a result, there has been a dramatic increase in drugs, prostitution, and other criminal activity.
Not surprising, given that law enforcement positions have been reduced from 845 to 180 over the past few years.
Poor Teddy. This is surely not what he intended back in 1903 when he created the nation's refuge system.
[Photo Credit: Associated Press]
