Sentence examples for off the refuge from inspiring English sources

"Hope said, 'No way.' She's spent 40 years keeping hunters off the refuge".

Harney County sheriff Dave Ward last week offered to peacefully escort Bundy and the rest of the militia off the refuge and out of state.

Finicum and other militiamen seemed undeterred by the Oregon state police's arrest on Friday of occupier Kenneth Medenbach, 62, who drove a government vehicle off the refuge to the local Safeway supermarket in the town of Burns, 30 miles away.

The four remaining militia members at the Malheur national wildlife refuge tentatively agreed to walk off the refuge at 8am, appearing to back down after the FBI dramatically closed in on their occupation.

Some members of the coastal Inupiat community, the Gwich'in's neighbours to the north, have supported drilling – or at least some Inupiat members of the isolated island town of Kaktovik off the coast of the refuge have.

By early afternoon, the convoy of armed men had driven off from the refuge.

Lin's facial expression was polite but desperate, and the hosts hustled him and his wife off to the refuge of a private area, where he waited to take the stage.

Though about 9,000 or so acres of the refuge remain off limits while the Navy clears the land of contaminants and unexploded ordnance, large sections are already open to the public -- not to mention to turtles, pelicans, lizards and about 130 types of birds.

Teagan described how members of the Refuge team were caught off guard by the wave of mainstream publicity around Yelp's news.

In 1980, Congress declared 8 million acres of the refuge as strictly protected wilderness and an additional 9.5 million as refuge lands off limits to energy exploration.

Stunned refuge officials and New Jersey wildlife biologists said they could not recall such a large waterfowl die-off here in the refuge or elsewhere in the state.