Thread: Government Removing Tree Tops/ Laydowns From Bayous

Originally Posted by JKCCKC2002

Well. With the way the gov't works it will take some time to finish. By then there will be many more lay downs in the river. Are they doing the mermentau also? Either way. It's a long project.

Overly optimistic IMHO. Go to the park in Jennings and you will see the contractor is really ramped up. They have already done alot and are moving fast.

I wonder just how far north they are coming I like all the trees and tops in D'Arbonne bayou good fishing and it slows the bass fisherman down

I am not sure why they do that either. The Bayou Vermillion River District runs their barge by my place doing the same thing twice a year. I'll ask them next time I see them.

This happened a while back here also on the Red River out of Natchitoches, only it was not the Gov. But commercial fisherman. They cleared out all the tops in one oxbo many that we're put there by a man I know, just so they could run nets in the area.

Originally Posted by TreeFrog

This happened a while back here also on the Red River out of Natchitoches, only it was not the Gov. But commercial fisherman. They cleared out all the tops in one oxbo many that we're put there by a man I know, just so they could run nets in the area.

These are all naturally occurring fallen trees and I know all the commercial fishermen and they don't care about them. The only folks that I could see benefit would be high speed boats and if they would run the center of the bayous no problem for them. I traveled these bayous with 90 Mercs and 115 Evenrudes for 30 years and never had a problem.

The way they are acting one would think they were trying to prevent the log jam that created all those lakes at Shreveport 170 years ago, the river was cleared. That log jam had been there for hundreds of years. The blowdowns are matures way of protecting all kinds of fish and reptiles that need them for protection. Turtles must rest somewhere. Some log removals may be removed for navigation on rivers, but on lakes , a blowdown should be protected for the wildlife not removed.

I would think that as license buying sportsman we would be able to sue what ever dept is behind the removal of habitat and get the removal stopped permanently. I want to add that some of the rule changes put in place by wildlife dept need to be address by license buying sportsman before being allowed to become a rule or law. As some of these changes make no real sense at all.

Has anyone found out anything behind the removal of the trees? Who is doing it? Why? Would like to hear all sides of the story before we get a lynch mob together

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Has anyone found out anything behind the removal of the trees? Who is doing it? Why? Would like to hear all sides of the story before we get a lynch mob together

All I know is what they told me on site. The Coast Guard puts the mark on the tree and the private contractor pulls them out. I talked to a WLF agent on the phone an he was no help. I really don't know who to call. If that GCCA was worth anything they would be all over this.

Originally Posted by mermentau

All I know is what they told me on site. The Coast Guard puts the mark on the tree and the private contractor pulls them out. I talked to a WLF agent on the phone an he was no help. I really don't know who to call. If that GCCA was worth anything they would be all over this.

If the Coast Guard is involved, then this would have to be federal and would have something to do with navigation?

Who is GCCA?