Louisiana Hunting Regulations 2016-2017

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Federal Land Schedules 2016-2017 Federal Lands Hunting Schedules Kisatchie National Forest Kisatchie National Forest is spread across seven parishes and consists of approximately 604,000 acres. Contact Information: • Website: www.fs.usda.gov/kisatchie • Forest Supervisor’s Office (Pineville): 318-473-7160 • Calcasieu Ranger District Office (Boyce): 318-793-9427 • Kisatchie Ranger District Office (Kisatchie): 318-472-1840 • Catahoula Ranger District Office (Bentley): 318-765-3554 • Winn Ranger District Office (Winnfield): 318-628-4664 • Caney Ranger District Office (Homer): 318-927-2061 If you would like to share your outdoor experience, send your picture(s) and/or story to knfoutdoors@fs.fed.us. All Seasons for KNF are for 2016-2017 only. Vehicles: • Motorized travel off designated roads and trails and outside designated areas is prohibited on the entire KNF. Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM) showing designated roads and trails and associated vehicles and travel seasons are available in all Forest Service offices and on the Kisatchie website. • ATV/UTV (50-inch maximum width) operation is prohibited on public roads and road rights-of-way. Use is allowed on forest roads designated as open seasonally to ATV/UTV use. Use is prohibited in some campsites and recreation areas; see bulletin boards for additional information (also see MVUM). • Nighttime ATV/UTV travel is prohibited. ATV/UTV travel is allowed between one hour before sunrise and one hour after sunset. • Game retrieval with an ATV/UTV is only allowed within designated 300-foot corridors (see MVUM). 106 2016-2017 Louisiana Hunting Regulations
Federal Land Schedules Camping: • Camping corridors for highway-legal vehicles to drive within 100 feet of the road and camp are designated on the Caney District and in the Red Dirt National Wildlife Management Preserve (see MVUM). • Contact your local ranger district office for additional information about camping. Hunter Orange: LDWF WMA regulations for hunter orange apply. General: Hunting or discharging a firearm in or within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area, across/on a NFSR (National Forest System Road) legally open to motorized use, across a body of water where any person/ property is exposed to injury/damage as a result of such discharge, is prohibited. Deer Hunting: • Bag Limit = 1 deer per day up to the statewide seasonal limit. • All deer hunting is still hunting only. • All deer must be tagged as required by LDWF regulations. • Hunting stand, blind, tripod, baiting, spot-lighting etc. regulations applicable to LDWF WMAs are in effect on KNF unless otherwise specified (refer to “Methods of Taking Game” section of the 2016-2017 LDWF WMA Regulations) excluding the “Bag Limit” and “Horses and Mules” sections. • Hunting from a permanent stand is prohibited. Placing or leaving a temporary stand is limited to 24 hours. • The training of deer dogs is prohibited year-round. • See separate schedule for Catahoula and Red Dirt National Wildlife Management Preserves. • LDWF Youth Deer Hunt Regulations apply for all KNF lands except that archery and open seasons for small game hunting is allowed (excluding those portions of the Vernon Unit within Fort Polk-Vernon WMA). Archery - Deer Hunting: • General: Either-sex deer may be taken at any time by archers during the archery season EXCEPT when bucks-only firearms seasons are in progress on KNF (archers must hunt only bucks during bucks-only firearm seasons). • Archers must adhere to the full hunter orange requirements during any firearm season for deer. • Vernon Unit of the Calcasieu Ranger District (Vernon Parish, excluding Fort Polk- Vernon WMA): Sept. 17 - Jan. 15 • Catahoula (Grant & Rapides parishes), Winn (Winn, Grant & Natchitoches parishes), Kisatchie Ranger Districts (Natchitoches Parish), Evangeline Unit of the Calcasieu Ranger District (Rapides Parish), and Caney Ranger District (Webster & Claiborne parishes): Oct. 1 - Jan. 31. Firearms - Deer Hunting (excludes the Catahoula and Red Dirt National Wildlife Management Preserves): • Catahoula (Grant & Rapides parishes), Winn (Winn, Grant & Natchitoches parishes), Kisatchie Ranger Districts (Natchitoches Parish), Evangeline Unit of the Calcasieu Ranger District (Rapides Parish), and the Vernon Unit of the Calcasieu Ranger District (Vernon Parish, excluding Fort Polk-Vernon WMA): -- Youth, either-sex: Oct. 8-9, still hunt only. LDWF Youth Deer Hunt regulations apply except that archery and open season small game hunting is allowed. LDWF regulations for hunter orange apply. -- Primitive Firearms, either-sex: Oct. 22-23, still hunt only. LDWF Youth Deer Hunt regulations apply. -- Firearms, either-sex: Oct. 29-30 and Nov. 25, still hunt only. Firearms, bucks only: Nov. 5-24 & 26-27 and Dec. 10-25, still hunt only. • Caney Ranger District (Webster and Claiborne parishes): Same as outside including Youth Hunt and Primitive Firearms (Area 2). Either-sex entire season.
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Deer Hunting Deer Hunting Schedules
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