Whereas, in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national wildlife refuge on Pelican Island in Florida; Whereas, in 2019, the National Wildlife Refuge System, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, is the premier system of land and water to conserve wildlife in the world and has grown to 567 national wildlife refuges and 38 wetland management districts located in every State and territory of the United States; Whereas national wildlife refuges are important recreational and tourism destinations in communities across the United States, and this protected land offers a variety of recreational opportunities, including the six wildlife-dependent uses of hunting, fishing, wildlife observation, photography, environmental education, and interpretation; Whereas the National Wildlife Refuge System receives more than 50,000,000 visitors annually, which generates more than $3,200,000,000 in sales and 41,000 jobs in local economies; Whereas 382 units of the National Wildlife Refuge System have hunting programs and 316 units have fishing programs that receive more than 2,000,000 hunting visits and more than 7,000,000 fishing visits annually; Whereas the National Wildlife Refuge System has hosted more than 30,000,000 wildlife observation visits in recent years; Whereas national wildlife refuges are important to local businesses and gateway communities; Whereas the National Wildlife Refuge System encompasses every kind of ecosystem in the United States, including temperate, tropical and boreal forests, wetlands, deserts, grasslands, arctic tundras, and remote islands, and spans 12 time zones from the United States Virgin Islands to Guam; Whereas national wildlife refuges are home to more than 700 species of birds, 220 species of mammals, 250 species of reptiles and amphibians, and more than 1,000 species of fish; Whereas national wildlife refuges are the primary Federal lands on which the production, migration, and wintering habitat for waterfowl are fostered