Sounds to me they want to accomplish 2 things:
1) provide additional hunting opportunities for the youth or, our future outdoors people.
2) knock a few elk out of the refuge or at least scatter the heard a bit.
What a great opportunity for you and your daughter. Once here in KS, we applied for and received a youth Whitetail tag ( she was 13 at the time ) in a State Park. The staff not only set up a blind for us but then made a deer drive. We had deer pouring through like crazy. She shot a fat doe and we still talk about it the day. They wanted to accomplish the above objectives.
