The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) ratified a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretarial Declaration of Emergency (DE) expanding the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Control Area in east central Louisiana, including parts of LaSalle Parish. The action came dur...

A long and exhaustive meeting of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) Thursday, April 3, resulted in a deer feeding ban for much of LaSalle and Catahoula parishes. The Commission met in Baton Rouge to discuss Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) that has been discovered in Louisiana deer ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LDWFC) is set to consider a motion to declare an emergency and ban all deer feeding, food plots and other possible measures, as part of their effort to control Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Louisiana’s deer population. The announcemen...

After what we have gone through weather- wise over the past two weeks, I might have an inkling of why all this has come to be. Could it be something c...

Ruston’s Jeff Perot was deer hunting in Richland Parish on December 28. What caliber was he toting? He wasn’t carrying a rifle; he was armed with his ...

As an outdoor writer, my paths cross with interesting people. Some are adept at fishing; some at hunting; some that are just flat-out interesting. A c...