The reason there is a need for refuges is a direct result of over development and bad stewardship by private land owners.
Your arguement seems to be leaning towards private land owners, once again, setting evironmental policy which we all know would be devasting.
I know of one farmer on a local river that absolutely loves fisherman and fishing season. During the off season he finds bottles and even drug needles on his land. I guess the junkies prefer privacy.
Someone brought up timber companies gating off roads. Those roads were paid for by us...the tax payer...what right should they have to gate them? The same with those properties with banks shored up years ago by the Army Corps of Engineers. The laws are heavily in favor of private land owners and I think they always will be which has led us to the environmental mess we are paying for today.