
Legislature seeks balance in boating rental, safety laws
Should most individuals over the age of 18 be allowed to rent a motorboat in Louisiana without passing the required boating safety course? […]
Should most individuals over the age of 18 be allowed to rent a motorboat in Louisiana without passing the required boating safety course? […]
LDWF Secretary Jack Montoucet took time to answer a few questions recently and provided some insight into some hot outdoor topics. […]
The Senate is expected to give final passage to a pair of bills that would create new ways for sportsmen to hunt and fish in Louisiana. […]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries wants to make it easier for the state to collect restitution fines. […]
Charter captains are fighting so they can participate in a state-sponsored insurance fund that serves the commercial fishing industry. […]
CCA Louisiana is undertaking a government relations campaign targeting the menhaden fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
It’s already happening. Right now. Low-lying areas along the coast are disappearing and exposing what sits behind to the Gulf of Mexico, which continues pushing further into Louisiana with each passing year. […]
As Louisiana’s coastline continues it’s quiet march inland, creating unprecedented challenges for communities that don’t directly neighbor the Gulf of Mexico, new advocates are cropping up. […]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words or, in the case of New Orleans attorneys Gladstone Jones and Jim Swanson, untold damages that are well into the millions. […]
While most of Louisiana’s coastal nonprofits get involved with beach cleanups, plantings and the like, nearly all of them dedicate at least part of their mission to education. […]
It’s a rather simple matter to underestimate the worth of Louisiana’s barrier islands. When the freshwater river flow slacks off a bit and shrimp are able inch closer to the coastline, barrier islands attract anglers and guides like moths to a flame. […]
Louisiana’s Master Plan for coastal restoration, hurricane protection and flood control has a massive $50 billion budget that will be spread out over the next 50 years or so. […]
While all of the manpower and dirt-turning is located on Louisiana’s coastline and in the Gulf of Mexico, some might argue that the real grunt work of coastal restoration takes place some 1,200 miles away in Washington, D.C. — where the state expects to get the lion’s share of the $50 billion needed for its 50-year Master Plan that has been approved by the Louisiana Legislature and Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. […]
Louisiana’s planned and existing diversion projects continue to yield controversy, but they’re not a one-size-fits-all approach. […]
Over the course of the 50-year Master Plan, officials say the sediment diversion projects in the document could create up to 300 square miles of new marsh at a cost of $4.1 billion, using a mix of funding ranging from federal dollars to offshore energy royalties. […]
According to Dr. E.L. Corthell, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the breakdown of the Mississippi River Delta’s coastal wetlands is in part a debate of commercial use and flood control versus conservation. It’s about short-term benefits versus long-term benefits and finding a way to battle a rising sea and disappearing earth. […]
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