How exactly would you like the money to be spent? I'm looking at a job right now to construct over 6 miles of new roads/trails through Beouf WMA. This area has always been good duck hunting, and used to be a bitch to access. Some of the improvements allowed much more pressure, and hunters bitched, but that work was done for the publics' advantage.

A few years ago the state spent money to build a greentree area on Dewey Wills, between Catahoula and the Delta (rice). I haven't hunted there, and don't know if it is good, but this was also done for the public - free of charge.

I don't always agree with them, but they definitely spend money to improve public land use.

Load your arse up and explore some of these if you want to see what the state is doing to improve public land hunting.

Let's hear your suggestions.

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Posted by Lreynolds

Member since Mar 2012

286 posts

Posted on 5/18/17 at 11:30 am to Ron Cheramie

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.

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Posted by Ron Cheramie

The Cajun Hedgehog

Member since Aug 2016

5152 posts

Posted on 5/18/17 at 11:43 am to Lreynolds

Yeah the dedicated tax funding would be good but I don't see any way that would pass a vote in Louisiana.

Our state parks are bad underfunded as well. Hate to see some of these very nice parks get out on the chopping block

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