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2014-15 WMA forecast

The 2013-14 deer harvest on the state’s vast WMAs was a banner season with 3,230 bucks and 2,422 does killed by hunters flocking to the public areas.

For $15, a hunter can hunt a wonderland of public lands and waters featuring the most-appealing habitat for big game, small game, migratory birds and other species in the Sportsman’s Paradise.

LWFC approves various upcoming hunting seasons, rules and regs

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved both the 2014-16 hunting season dates and the 2014-15 general and Wildlife Management Area rules and regulations, including some modifications to deer area boundaries, according to a press release.

2013-14 WMA Forecast

This huge deer was killed by Winnsboro’s Eric Davis on Dec. 29 while he was hunting on Buckhorn WMA.

Two of Louisiana’s many Wildlife Management Areas were thrust into the spotlight since the summer of 2012.

2012-13 WMA Forecast

During the rut, bucks will follow does for days and travel many miles until they are receptive.

Did you know when mast-producing trees are stressed, as they are in a drought, they produce a bumper crop of acorns?

Or that a wildlife management area in Louisiana is devoted exclusively to youth hunting and youth hunting education only?

Did you know one 19,000-plus-acre WMA is bordered by a 100,000-plus-acre national wildlife refuge, which combined gives deer hunters optimum opportunities to hunt and kill deer — some large animals, at that — on the vast public bottomland hardwood region?Read More...

September 01, 2012 at 7:00 am
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Things looking up for coastal WMAs

Avid rabbit hunters should find success this season on Ben’s Creek WMA.

Louisiana’s southeasternmost wildlife management area became the ugly, oily poster child for manmade catastrophes after April 20, the day of the Deepwater Horizon explosion.Read More...

September 22, 2010 at 4:18 pm
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