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While not an FAA regulation per/se, the US Fish and Wildlife Service requests that pilots maintain a minimum altitude of 2,000 feet AGL above the terrain of a wildlife refuge area and prohibits unauthorized landings in a refuge except in an emergency. |
Wildlife refuge areas are shown on VFR sectional charts, so it should be a relatively easy task for the pilot to maintain the prescribed altitude, especially in the age of GPS navigation which allows for amazingly accurate positional information. It is probably not a good idea to conduct low-level operations over these and other wooded, remote areas in any case: in the case of an emergency, the more altitude available, the more choices available to the pilot. |
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