We've been spending more time outdoors and getting in each other’s space, with heated results.
February 9, 2021
Standing on her driveway in South Kingstown, Margaret Bucheit points to a stone wall less than 200 feet away that marks the boundary of the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. Its proximity is worrisome to Bucheit and her neighbors because the refuge will be allowing bowhunting in the adjacent woodlands for the first time beginning next fall, and the prospect makes them feel unsafe.
While she doesn’t object to hunting — her husband, William Ohley, frequently hunts with a long-bow — she has witnessed poachers in clandestine hunting stands and drunk hunters in areas that have been closed to hunting since the refuge was established in 1973.