LINCOLN – Target shooting at the Leonard A. Koziol Wildlife Management Area (WMA) has been permanently closed. Target shooting at the WMA in Howard County is now prohibited because of safety concerns, property destruction and excessive littering. Target shooting is permitted on most WMAs. The areas that have target shooting bans are posted with appropriate signs. Call a Nebraska Game and Parks Commission district office in Lincoln (402-471-0641), Norfolk (402-370-3374), North Platte (308-535-8025) or Alliance (308-763-2940) to find out where target shooting is banned in each district.
We've talked about this before, when other open areas have been closed to shooters for the same declared reasons.
I don't know anything about this range, or the people who use it. Maybe there are a few Trash Shooters who ruin it for everyone. The best we can do is, when we go to a place where it's currently "permissable" to shoot ... leave it cleaner than you found it.
Maybe that should be the FIRST thing we do. Clean the range, and if you have any energy left then do what you went there to do.
