In 1992, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) granted the Louisiana black bear threatened status under the United States Endangered Species Act of 1973. Since that time, a recovery plan was developed, a reintroduced population was established, and habitat recovery has occurred. The...
Louisiana has announced when the black bear hunting season will take place this winter, and we now know how many black bears will be harvested in the upcoming season. The black bear population in Louisiana has exploded in recent years, so Wildlife & Fisheries has elected to open the ...
For most of American history, a majority of the Black population in this country was prohibited from learning to read or write. Today millions of African Americans are enrolled in higher education. Here are some key events that occurred along the way. 1799: John Chavis, a Presbyterian minister...
Britt Bennett’s The Vanishing Half tells the story of twin sisters, born into a light-skinned black community in Louisiana of the 1950s, which takes great pride in its pursuit of whiteness. The two women break free from the oppression of their hometown, a place trapped between its citizens...
Louisiana officials said the plan to transfer some youths to Angola was intended to reduce the youth detainee population at other troubled facilities until new, more secure facilities can be built or renovated. The transfers were supposed to have be...
Non-predaceous fish made up 56 percent of the total population. Bluegill sunfish, warmouth sunfish, gizzard shad, fresh-water drum, largemouth bass, black crappie and spotted gar were the principal fishes in the lakes. An average of 78 pounds of available game fish (harvestable-size game fish...
James Earl Jones. In the migration’s early years, 500 people a day fled to the North. By 1930, a tenth of the country’s black population had relocated. When it ended, nearly half lived outside the South.James Earl Jones Collection ...
in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase., Soon after, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Missouri River stretch of present-day South Dakota, meeting Yankton and Lakota Sioux tribes along the way. In 1861, Yankton was named the capital of the Dakota Territory, which included today’s South ...
He is hoping that the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries can offer some help in this matter. If you have a hunting license, coyotes are considered a nuisance animal, so you canlegally kill them. You can legally kill them on your own property at night as well. Here i...
63 people) and Louisiana (1 in 69). In fact, Singh noted, 9 out of the 10 areas with the highest risk were in located the South. The states with the lowest lifetime risk of acquiring HIV were Wyoming (1 in 655), Idaho (1 in 624), Maine (1 in 584) and Montana (1 in 536)...