State Water Policy
WHEREAS, Louisiana is blessed with abundant ground and surface water resources but growing demand for agricultural, industrial, business and residential water use makes it essential to the future prosperity of …
Year: 2001
NRCS Small Watershed Projects/Mitigating Damages Along Bayou Barbeau (St. Landry Parish)
WHEREAS, in 2000, the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture completed a small watershed project that was authorized for the purpose of relieving flooding of …
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Identifying and Making State-Owned Lands Available for Public Wildlife-Related Recreational Use
WHEREAS, in addition to the public lands made available for outdoor recreation by the Louisiana Office of State Parks and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the state and …
Mitigation Policy and Coastal Use Permitting by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
WHEREAS, a primary purpose of the State’s Coastal Use Permit Program administered by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) is to minimize the damage to coastal wetlands from development …
Restoration of Point Chevreuil Reef
WHEREAS, the Vermilion/Cote Blanche Bay system plays a vital role in the economy of the state of Louisiana as well as the Acadiana area, generating more than $500 million in …
Trespass Laws/Penalties
WHEREAS, most private lands in Louisiana are posted against trespass, and WHEREAS, many private lands are leased for hunting or reserved for hunting by the owner and his family/friends, and …
Maurepas Swamp Freshwater Diversion
WHEREAS, many of the swamps, marshes and estuarine ecosystems of the southeastern part of Louisiana were created by the Mississippi River (River), and were nourished by the freshwater, sediment and …
Funding Nuisance Aquatic Weed Control
WHEREAS, the proliferation of nuisance aquatic weeds in Louisiana’s waters has been a problem since the introduction of the water hyacinth many years ago, and WHEREAS, access to many waters …
National Marine Fisheries Service Regulations and Fees
WHEREAS, the National Marine Fisheries Service (MOS) has required tuna permits and fees of sports fishermen with no visible evidence that such fees have been utilized to benefit sports fishermen, …
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Recreational Hunting Season for Nutria
WHEREAS, introduced to Louisiana in the 1930s, the nutria (Myocastor coypus) is a semiaquatic, herbivorous mammal native to South America, and WHEREAS, twenty years ago, a large Cameron Parish nutria …