rammac
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...You can hunt in monuments. Most monuments have it in their proclamation that you can hunt in them.
More ignorant propaganda from the misinformed.
There are 117 National Monuments. These monuments are managed by at least 7 government agencies and hunting/ fishing will be controlled in accordance with the managing agency's rules. If the monument is managed by the National Park Service then no hunting or fishing will be allowed. The National Park Service is the sole manager of 78 monuments, that leaves just 39 monuments that might allow hunting and fishing. Also, most monuments do not expressly permit hunting and fishing, they simply imply that hunting and fishing is allowed since the agency that manages the monument typically allows those kinds of recreation (the Forest Service, BLM, etc.). I found a list of 17 Western National Monuments that explained that only two of those monument proclamations expressly authorized hunting and fishing, the rest only implied that it was allowed since the proclamations didn't specifically prohibit it.
So no, most of the proclamations do not specifically state that you can hunt and fish on monument land. That means that the managing agencies can change the rules any time that they want, that's hardly a guarantee of continued public land use policies.