Louisiana whooping crane reintroduction gets major boost [video]
Five chicks are the most to hatch in one year in the nascent project, which launched in 2011.
Man could have sentenced Smith to a year in prison and imposed a $5,000 fine, according to the plea agreement.
Bruno’s 800-mile trip included highly-publicized trek into Illinois, among other states.
Five chicks are the most to hatch in one year in the nascent project, which launched in 2011.
But with the changes also come some fee hikes, depending on the type of license category a hunter or angler purchases. Opponents criticized those increases, which the department estimated would bring in an extra $10 million annually.
Four-year-old buck was found dead and emaciated in late January near the Louisiana border, prompting the banning of deer feeding in several counties.
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana chef hopes to control invasive Asian carp by marketing them as Silverfin fish cakes. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says in a news release late last week that Chef Philippe Parola’s Silverfin Group Inc. will sell the fish cakes nationally to restaurants, caterers and schools, primarily through SYSCO food distributors. Parola has…
Whooping cranes are still working their way back from the brink of extinction. The population has grown from fewer than 20 birds in the mid-1940s to almost 850 birds today, according to the foundation.NEW ORLEANS — A dozen young whooping cranes from Wisconsin, Maryland, and Alberta, Canada, are being gradually introduced to the wild in a Louisiana refuge. The Audubon…
BATON ROUGE, La. — With Halloween here, it’s the bats that should be scared. A relatively new disease has ravaged populations across the eastern half of North America, but Louisiana could hold the key to keeping the species alive. Bats – of the order Chiroptera, meaning “winged hands” – may conjure images of blood-sucking vampires, but the local varieties are…
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Army Corps of Engineers are holding a viewing event Saturday, Aug. 12.
Also killed ducks from a moving vehicle in separate incident.