wildlife and fisheries

The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has set dates for cleaning abandoned crab traps from waterways in St.

The birds were delivered to the state Dec. 1 and were released Tuesday in the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in Gueydan, according to a statement from the state Wildlife and Fisheries Department.

Virginia O'Hanlon, 8, wrote a letter to New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an... Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries agents arrested two men Friday morning accused of making illegal narcotics and claiming to be hunting.

Officials say a 47-year-old Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agent was found dead in woods along the Mississippi River after he was shot in the chest in the early morning hours.

Authorities say a teenager drowned in a boating accident in Jackson Parish. Capt. Alan Bankston with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said two teenage boys were riding on a paddle boat in a small private pond near Eros Monday night when the paddle boat capsized.

Two suspects in the shooting and decapitation of at least two bald eagles in Franklin Parish are being investigated and arrests are expected soon, says Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham.

Wildlife and Fisheries officers continue their investigation of a boating accident that killed a Deville man.

A boating accident that killed a Deville man is under investigation by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officers.

Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says Rice University's timber company has enrolled 49,700 acres of land in a safe harbor program for endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers.

Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries agents have arrested the operator of a boat for his role in the deaths of three of his passengers on Lake Maurepas during the Memorial Day weekend.