We the hunters, environmentalist and concerned citizens of Louisiana have came together to voice our concerns; in regards to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries killing feral hogs from a helicopter. We feel as thou the natural esthetic quality of life, along the Lower Pearls, are being affected by the use of helicopters to kill the feral hogs. Under the Louisiana Constitution Article IX, Section one it states: "The natural resources of the state, including air and water, and the healthful, scenic, historic, and esthetic quality of the environment shall be protected, conserved, and replenished insofar as possible and consistent with the health, safety, and welfare of the people. The legislature shall enact laws to implement this policy". With that being said we pray you will consider allowing hog hunters more days to hog hunt, with or without dogs in Pearl River Wildlife Management Area. This would be a more ethical way of dealing with the feral hog problem and also help preserve our esthetic quality of life. We also feel that the funding that is being used for the helicopter hunts should go to "setting a bounty on hogs."
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March 12, 2014
The calls to the department have been met with mostly empty excuses. It is exhausting to keep pushing when the authorities refuse to acknowledge the damage being done to our landscape, but I am not walking away from this fight.
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Let's us have more time with dogs and have some fun raising our kids doing a sport we love and pass on the heritage of hunting give us more time with dogs in the pearl river wma
I love running dogs and is the most effective way to deal with hogs I say give us February to May from I-10 south to the lake
Longer season with dogs would help control the hogs. Just in February alone our crew took out 104 hogs.
need have it wher we can hunt and trap hogs all year by them shooting them and letting rot they going be stinking everybody that go around there got smell it and thats just waistfull of meat someone can use in these hard times
I am appalled that they would shoot hogs from helicoptors and just leave them there. If they do that often we will be run out of here because of the smell. This is my concern as I am not a hunter, but I like the country way of controling the hogs.
I agree more primitive hunting
Stop wasting our money and let hunters hunt 24/7 with dogs until the problem is solved.
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We the hunters, environmentalist and concerned citizens of Louisiana have came together to voice our concerns; in regards to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries killing feral hogs from a helicopter. We feel as thou the natural esthetic quality of life, along the Lower Pearls, are being affected by the use of helicopters to kill the feral hogs. Under the Louisiana Constitution Article IX, Section one it states: "The natural resources of the state, including air and water, and the healthful, scenic, historic, and esthetic quality of the environment shall be protected, conserved, and replenished insofar as possible and consistent with the health, safety, and welfare of the people. The legislature shall enact laws to implement this policy". With that being said we pray you will consider allowing hog hunters more days to hog hunt, with or without dogs in Pearl River Wildlife Management Area. This would be a more ethical way of dealing with the feral hog problem and also help preserve our esthetic quality of life. We also feel that the funding that is being used for the helicopter hunts should go to "setting a bounty on hogs."
Thanks
Updates
March 12, 2014
The calls to the department have been met with mostly empty excuses. It is exhausting to keep pushing when the authorities refuse to acknowledge the damage being done to our landscape, but I am not walking away from this fight.
48 Comments
So the dwlf paid for a helicopter, fuel and other expenses. How much did that cost the tax payer? Why not let us take care of the hog problem with more liberal hunting days? But that wouldn't be as much fun as fling around wasting money and meat
Let's us have more time with dogs and have some fun raising our kids doing a sport we love and pass on the heritage of hunting give us more time with dogs in the pearl river wma
I love running dogs and is the most effective way to deal with hogs I say give us February to May from I-10 south to the lake
Longer season with dogs would help control the hogs. Just in February alone our crew took out 104 hogs.
need have it wher we can hunt and trap hogs all year by them shooting them and letting rot they going be stinking everybody that go around there got smell it and thats just waistfull of meat someone can use in these hard times
I am appalled that they would shoot hogs from helicoptors and just leave them there. If they do that often we will be run out of here because of the smell. This is my concern as I am not a hunter, but I like the country way of controling the hogs.
I agree more primitive hunting
Stop wasting our money and let hunters hunt 24/7 with dogs until the problem is solved.
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So the dwlf paid for a helicopter, fuel and other expenses. How much did that cost the tax payer? Why not let us take care of the hog problem with more liberal hunting days? But that wouldn't be as much fun as fling around wasting money and meat