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A local attorney brought a lawsuit in 2002 challenging the legality of a 1987 Legislative act (LSA-R.S. 56:24), that exempted local and state property taxes on corporate forest lands leased to the State for hunting by the public, that allegedly conflicts with Section 21 of Article 7 of the Louisiana Constitution. The lawsuit will likely have ...
The following is a list of Louisiana state forests. Name (by alphabetical order) Location (of main entrance) Alexander State Forest: Rapides Parish: See also
Louisiana, as well as all other states such as Texas, [5] participate in the HIP Program. This is an acronym for Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program that is operated jointly by each state and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), for anyone wanting to hunt ducks, coots, geese, brant, swans, doves, band-tailed pigeons, woodcock, rails, snipe, sandhill cranes, or gallinules, all ...
Grand Isle State Park is the only state-owned and -operated beach on the Louisiana gulf coast. [24] Jimmie Davis State Park: Jackson Parish: 294 acres (119 ha) [25] 1996 [26] Many of the largest bass caught in Louisiana have been in Caney Lake Reservoir which is in the park. [27] As of 2010, the largest bass from Louisiana was caught at Caney ...
Fontainebleau State Park is located in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.The park is 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) in size and was once the site of a sugar cane plantation and brickyard operated by Bernard de Marigny and later by his son Armand Marigny.
Further, the Forest Service fought fires on 2.996 million acres (12,120 km 2) of land in 2007. [15] The Forest Service organization includes ranger districts, national forests, regions, research stations and research work units and the Northeastern Area Office for State and Private Forestry. Each level has responsibility for a variety of functions.
Sabine NWR map (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; click for a larger view). Sabine National Wildlife Refuge was in the direct path of Hurricane Rita on September 24, 2005. All of the office buildings, visitor center, and maintenance shops were damaged beyond repair and have been removed.
The refuge is located in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, east central Louisiana. The refuge is named for its most prominent water body, the 350-acre (1.4 km 2) Lake Ophelia that was at one time a channel of the nearby Red River of the South.