re: Louisiana Game Harvest Survey

In a recent meeting with the Secretary of LDWF and the Louisiana Waterfowl Alliance, I was taken to task about WMA over-crowding, lack of rest areas, and poor habitat management using examples from AR and MO.

Some interesting points made during that meeting were:
AR, and MO (and MN as well) have dedicated tax funding for their wildlife management agencies.
They have had at least 1 license fee increase since 1999.
LDWF has been given over 100,000 acres of WMAs in the past 15 years, but there are fewer people on WMA staff to administer them.
Our biggest specific WMA expenditures are gravel for roads during the off-season, and running self-clearing permit boxes and managed hunts during the season.
Waterfowl Section has been successful at landing large NAWCA grants for pumps, structures, dirt-work on WMAs, but WMAs lack staff/resources/expertise to manage optimally.

We definitely have issues to address.