White Lake Rice Field hunts

[RatherBFishin]

A good friend of mine leases a blind down there. Been a couple of times. Killed ducks on every hunt with one really good hunt.

[Duck Butter]

White Lake was gifted to the state, the state did not buy it, so it was kinda one of those 'gee thanks i guess' when they got it. It takes a LOT of money to manage a place like that and the few extra duck stamps that might be bought to hunt there aint gonna cut it that is why they don't let the public hunt there outright. You would need extra game wardens, biologists, technicians, etc. and that place is very hard to navigate, you just can't drive over to a water control structure on the back 40 on an ATV. This is where you need surface drives, airboats, etc. in order to navigate the place, which cost big money. They can't just borrow this from Rockefeller because the Rockefeller funds are set aside just for that place, and unfortunately BP didn't set aside a million dollars a year to the state to manage it properly.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

White Lake was gifted to the state, the state did not buy it, so it was kinda one of those 'gee thanks i guess' when they got it. It takes a LOT of money to manage a place like that and the few extra duck stamps that might be bought to hunt there aint gonna cut it that is why they don't let the public hunt there outright. You would need extra game wardens, biologists, technicians, etc. and that place is very hard to navigate, you just can't drive over to a water control structure on the back 40 on an ATV. This is where you need surface drives, airboats, etc. in order to navigate the place, which cost big money. They can't just borrow this from Rockefeller because the Rockefeller funds are set aside just for that place, and unfortunately BP didn't set aside a million dollars a year to the state to manage it properly.

BP was satisfying a judgement to the state that former Gov Foster steered White Lake Preserve into the deal instead of BP paying the judgement.
http://www.lawildlifefed.org/content.cfm?new=230&id=178

Checkout what they are getting for leases on the property. At the time in 2002, it was said only those with $$$$ would ever hunt on the property.

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/whitelakeleases

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Raymond

BP was satisfying a judgement to the state that former Gov Foster steered White Lake Preserve into the deal instead of BP paying the judgement.
http://www.lawildlifefed.org/content.cfm?new=230&id=178

Checkout what they are getting for leases on the property. At the time in 2002, it was said only those with $$$$ would ever hunt on the property.

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/whitelakeleases

Good lord!

It was not a 'gift' per se, but it was not bought. It sorta reeks of politics as usual, BUT it is much better to get money from leasing than having to pay an arm and a leg to manage it for public use. We already have hundreds of thousands of acres of public land to play on anyhow. And the whooping cranes out there are having a tough enough time as it is, imagine how long they would last if 100 t-boy jeansonnes and boudreaux thibodeauxs were out there

[Raymond]

State should have taken the $38,000,000 plus intrest judgement but in the end they would have probably sqandered it like they have so much of our money.
Sure would have helped with the budget deficits LDWF are always having to deal with.

[Bluechip]

Originally Posted by Raymond

State should have taken the $38,000,000 plus intrest judgement but in the end they would have probably sqandered it like they have so much of our money.
Sure would have helped with the budget deficits LDWF are always having to deal with.

x2....

[RAGINJROB]

Originally Posted by Raymond

BP was satisfying a judgement to the state that former Gov Foster steered White Lake Preserve into the deal instead of BP paying the judgement.
http://www.lawildlifefed.org/content.cfm?new=230&id=178

Checkout what they are getting for leases on the property. At the time in 2002, it was said only those with $$$$ would ever hunt on the property.

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/whitelakeleases

Someone has some deep pockets

[duck enticer]

Originally Posted by RatherBFishin

A good friend of mine leases a blind down there. Been a couple of times. Killed ducks on every hunt with one really good hunt.

Thats what I'm talking about. Nice