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Happy hunters
What goes around comes around, and once again the deer season has arrived in the Bayou State.[…]
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Hey, it’s still good, good, good!
Lately, the Moreland clan has been spending a lot of time at the Baton Rouge Orthopedic Clinic; it started with a surgery on my wife’s shoulder for a torn rotator cuff, followed by surgery on our son Ruffin’s leg, followed by an air cast for me to help heal a bad ankle.[…]
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Buck or doe — the choice is yours
It is hard to believe that the 2013-14 hunting season is just around the corner. Now is the time to be making final preparations for the upcoming season, one of which should be to purchase your new hunting license and obtain deer tags, which are required of all deer hunters.[…]
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Good, Good, Good
Since the Robertson Clan has cornered the market on the phrase “Happy, happy, happy” (Papa Phil has even written a book by that name), I decided the title for my column this month would be “Good, good, good” in reference to the good things that have recently happened in our wildlife management program in Clinton.[…]
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Work now for success next season
An e-mail from Jimmy Stafford, turkey biologist for LDWF, indicated a poor 2013 spring turkey season across the state, with the harvest being down 500 or more turkeys from the 2012 season.[…]
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A turkey for dad
When you hear “Phfffffftt,” you know a strutting tom is close and it is time to get ready.[…]
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Are you ‘coyoted-up?’
At the recent meeting of the Southeast Deer Study Group in South Carolina, the talk among the deer researchers and biologists continued to focus on coyotes and fawn depredation, the lack of fawn recruitment in various herds and the continuing spread of CWD in this country.[…]
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Time to do the math
The deer season is over, and it is now time to measure the antlers and recognize the trophy-class bucks, along with looking at the deer harvest data and determining what has been accomplished with your deer management program.[…]
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Turkey hunting in 2013
The work that has been done the past two years will determine one’s hunting success in the upcoming turkey season.[…]
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This is the harvest season
The holidays have come and gone, and hopefully you enjoyed these special times with family and friends.[…]
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Keeping an eye on the 2012 rut
Observations of deer and deer activity during the months of September and October indicate the rut is on schedule; now we need Mother Nature to do her part with some cold weather.[…]
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Pig mania continues in Clinton
Just when we thought it was time to focus on the 2012 deer season, the pigs decide to keep playing the game.[…]
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Finding out who your friends are
We know that when the storms of life hit Mother Nature can put the outdoors back in order, but we need our friends to help us get going again.[…]
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A new season but the game is the same
If you didn’t like the 2011 deer season you probably will not like the 2012 season.[…]
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Going hog wild
I mentioned last month that the hogs were finally beginning to show up at the bait sites and I was making plans to put some pork in the freezer.[…]
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What have you done for wildlife today?
When I went to work for the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries way back in 1976, the late Dewey Wills was assistant chief of the Game Division (now the Wildlife Division).[…]