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Perry Pitre Jr. with a black bear paw. (Submitted photo)

Perry Pitre Jr. with a black bear paw. (Submitted photo)

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2 La. hunters harvest bears where Teddy Roosevelt hunted

Trey Iles/ riles@wlf.la.gov
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The recently concluded Louisiana black bear hunting season, administered by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), produced an impressive harvest by 10 hunters in northeast Louisiana. For two of those hunters, Fisher Brown and Perry Pitre Jr.

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Evangeline Parish LDWF agent Guillory recognized

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, January 10, 2025
Five Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) employees were recognized for their commitment to managing, protecting, and conserving Louisiana’s abundant natural resources at the Jan.
Deron Santiny with the 696-pound Louisiana black bear he harvested in Tensas Parish. (Submitted photo)

Deron Santiny with the 696-pound Louisiana black bear he harvested in Tensas Parish. (Submitted photo)

Lafayette vet harvests 696-pound La. black bear

Trey Iles/ riles@wlf.la.gov
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Deron Santiny grew up in Louisiana hunting and fishing and thought he had seen just about everything. That is until he witnessed a 696-pound male Louisiana black bear come sauntering out of the Tensas Parish woods not far from where he was housed in a deer stand.

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Hunters asked to assist LDWF chronic wasting surveillance

Trey Iles/ riles@wlf.la.gov
Friday, December 13, 2024
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is asking state deer hunters for assistance in surveillance for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in connection with a deer at a captive deer farm which tested positive for the disease in Jeff Davis Parish on Nov. 7.
A Louisiana black bear photographed at Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area in Central Louisiana. (LDWF photo)

A Louisiana black bear photographed at Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area in Central Louisiana. (LDWF photo)

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State opens inaugural black bear season with 10 tags

Wesley Muller / Louisiana Illuminator
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Saturday marked the beginning of Louisiana’s new black bear hunting season, but it will probably be a while before the sport is accessible to more than a select few hunters and landowners. Gov. Jeff Landry announced the opening of the season, which will last through Dec.
A fishing crew off the Louisiana coast reels in a large net full of menhaden. (Courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant)

A fishing crew off the Louisiana coast reels in a large net full of menhaden. (Courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant)

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Fewer fish spills reported after Louisiana pushes pogy boats from coast

Tristan Baurick / Verite
Friday, November 1, 2024
In 2022, a menhaden fishing ship and its net boats spilled about a million fish off the Louisiana coast, leaving the floating mass to rot in the summer sun. A few months later, another spill blanketed Louisiana beaches with an estimated 850,000 dead fish.

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LDWF announces road closure in Thistlethwaite Wildlife Management Area

Trey Iles/ riles@wlf.la.gov
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) closed the intersection of Plant Road and Rice Field Road at Thistlethwaite Wildlife Management Area (WMA) for culvert replacement on Wednesday. The closure is expected to last three days.