Another year has slipped away since you bought your fishing licenses. So don’t forget to purchase your 2013-14 fishing licenses — and you can now start buying your hunting licenses for the upcoming season.[…]
LCD screen brightness, contrast and resolution improve with every new generation of marine electronics. Higher pixel counts, new sonar technologies, more-vibrant colors and improved visibility under adverse light conditions let us see tiny sonar and chart details that would have been invisible a decade ago without zooming to enlarge the screen picture.[…]
I like bears. I like black ones, brown ones and white ones, and I like the fact they still roam free in some of their original habitat ranges. The wild places just wouldn’t seem quite as wild without the bear.[…]
Louisiana Legislature wrapped up its regular session in early June after debating dozens of bills related to hunting, fishing and the outdoors.[…]
A new documentary prominently featuring a book by former Louisiana Sportsman editor Todd Masson and Gordon Hutchinson will show in theaters across the country in the next couple of months.[…]
If there’s one underlying assumption that’s been used to justify the $50 billion cost of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan, it’s this: We actually have a chance to prevent Southeast Louisiana from drowning in the Gulf because the Mississippi River carries the mud and sand necessary to keep pace with sea-level rise.[…]
Planned since 2004, the study lately has taken on new urgency, as a result of evolving insights into the river’s capacity.[…]
While the study of river hydrodynamics was first proposed in 2004, it wasn’t funded until 2011. So the scientists working on the 2012 edition of the master plan put together preliminary planning models that prepared the way for the more-detailed operating models to be developed when the latest data on the lower river became available. That work was cheered in peer reviews, even though it was based on river data that, in some cases, were decades old, researchers said.[…]
The goal of the research, he said, was to see if the conventional scientific wisdom about how much sediment the river carries in its upstream reaches holds true on its last leg to the Gulf.[…]
Understanding the overall demands on the river is critical to the master plan because the river must also serve other important needs.[…]
With only one opposing vote out of 144, the Legislature decided, during the final hours of its regular session’s last day, that the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries should pay $2 million for various properties already owned by the state to expand existing wildlife management areas and refuges, among other purposes.[…]
The long-time head of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ Enforcement Division is retiring this week, the LDWF announced today.[…]
Throngs of kayak anglers will again descend on Grand Isle on Aug. 16-17 for the fourth annual Ride the Bull Extreme Kayak Fishing Tournament.[…]
Powered by only a single AA battery, the SpareOne mobile phone is the perfect communication device to have in an emergency situation.[…]
Bear & Son Cutlery has added three new 7-inch Skinners to their line of quality knives for hunters.[…]
You can now achieve distinct, professional-looking grill marks with ease.[…]