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re: Would you support an Elk Restoration project in Louisiana?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:32 am to fr33manator
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:32 am to fr33manator
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Anyway, can you imagine swamp gorillas?
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Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:34 am to Solo Cam
Hell yeah sign me up
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:34 am to Solo Cam
Fun fact. The last known Buffalo to range into Louisiana was shot on Kisatchie National Forest about 150 years ago. The guy who shot it revered the animal so much that he had himself buried on the spot where he remembered killing it.
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Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:36 am to Solo Cam
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Buffalo too. How badass would it be to have Elk in North LA and Bison in south LA
How about grizzly bears and jaguars?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:46 am to Solo Cam
quote:tossing topwaters early in the morning with an elk bugles in the distance sounds pretty sweet
You know how bad arse it would be to be in a bottom and then hear an elk bugle? Wild
Posted on 3/20/23 at 10:47 am to glassman
I remember reading an account where the Spanish saw Native Americans throwing cast nets from the shore in Lacombe and catching redfish.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 11:25 am to Solo Cam
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Would you support an Elk Restoration project in Louisiana?
the padoos and bayou boys would be bulleyeing them for sure
Posted on 3/20/23 at 11:45 am to GreatLakesTiger24
There is a high fence resort near where I hunt that has elk in it. After one of the hurricanes, a tree knocked down the fence and a few elk got loose. I was hoping that fricker would make it to my stand but the owner's ended up finding them and putting them down on the spot. Every once in a while with a strong wind we could hear one bugling.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:05 pm to Solo Cam
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Buffalo too. How badass would it be to have Elk in North LA and Bison in south LA
Why not Elephants, Tigers, and Hippos in the Mississippi River.
The need love too.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:06 pm to el Gaucho
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I wish they’d bring back hippos
Mom got deported?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:10 pm to jaytothen
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Put dat on a cracker dude
Interestingly enough, Academy now carries his full line of seasoning. That little fender bender on the water doesn't seem to have slowed him down.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:12 pm to MorbidTheClown
Arkansas has a pretty good population of elk now. The problem is when they transplanted them they also transplanted chronic wasting disease.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:15 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
There are Elk, Cougars, Red Wolves in East TN.
A buddy of mine who worked for the TN Wildlife Management said they couldn't tell the difference in a Red Wolf and a Coyote.
So call them which ever makes you happy.
A buddy of mine who worked for the TN Wildlife Management said they couldn't tell the difference in a Red Wolf and a Coyote.
So call them which ever makes you happy.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:16 pm to el Gaucho
quote:someone hasn't ever been to the Amelia Belle
I wish they’d bring back hippos
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:19 pm to Harpo67
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Arkansas has a pretty good population of elk now
Kentucky does as well.
It would be damn nice to not have to drive 24 hours and hike 25 miles to elk hunt.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:19 pm to Solo Cam
Hell yes. They have some herds up in NW Arkansas around the Buffalo River. Very cool to see.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:21 pm to Gus007
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Why not Elephants, Tigers, and Hippos in the Mississippi River.
Simple--none of those species have ever occurred here.
The ignorance of the OT never ceases to amaze.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 1:10 pm to Cowboyfan89
Louisiana almost had hippos a good while back.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 2:41 pm to cyarrr
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Honest question, is there a reason why it's surpising that wild turkeys were observed in Plaquemines Parish? They are native to south Louisiana.
Only because of the current geography of Plaquemines Parish is it surprising. Right now, the parish is almost all open water an/or rapidly degrading marsh with very few trees, no forests, or any other type of natural features that turkeys typically require. These historical accounts are a snapshot in time when that area of our state was much more ecologically diverse.
Having hunted turkeys my whole life, it is definitely true that they require large tracks of forested land, with very little human interaction or pressure. Life wouldn't be possible for turkeys in present-day Plaquemines, unfortunately. With the erosion and rapid land loss of the past century alone, it is hard enough for humans.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 5:10 pm to el Gaucho
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I wish they’d bring back hippos
There once was serious consideration to introduce hippos to Louisiana to control water hyacinth.
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According to the folks at Wikipedia: "The water hyacinth was introduced in 1884 at the World's Fair in New Orleans, also known as the World Cotton Centennial. The plants had been given away as gifts by a group of visiting Japanese."
According to Mooallem's story in The Atavist, 16 years after the World's Fair, when the hyacinth invasion was in full bloom so to speak, a pair of early 20th century adventurers and an affable Louisiana congressman put their heads together and came up with a splendid two-birds-with-one-stone sort of idea. Soggy south Louisiana, it seems, was starved for beef because there wasn't enough solid ground to raise big herds of cattle. The three partners' visionary plan was to import hippopotami to eat the invasive hyacinths (among other things) and in turn be eaten by the carnivorous citizens of Louisiana. The partners apparently called themselves the New Foods Society.
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"Known as the American Hippo bill, H.R. 23621 was introduced by Louisiana Congressman Robert Broussard and debated by the Agricultural Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. ... The American Hippo bill nearly passed, but fell one vote short."
NOLA.com
Can you imagine trying to get to a duck blind and being attacked by hippos?
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