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A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agent was found dead this morning, Sept. 30, in West Feliciana Parish. The body of Sgt. Paul Stuckey, 47, of Zachary, was found by local fishermen at the old ferry landing near the banks of the Mississippi River just outside of St. Francisville at daybreak. West Feliciana Sheriff's Office (WFSO) deputies were the first on the scene and found Sgt. Stuckey with a shotgun wound to his chest next to his patrol vehicle. The WFSO notified LDWF at 7 a.m. "Our hearts go out to the Sgt. Stuckey family and his extended family of fellow agents will be there to help them through this tough time," said Col. Winton Vidrine, head of the LDWF Enforcement Division. According to LDWF dispatch, Sgt. Stuckey's last known communication with the department was at 2:15 a.m. identifying that he was responding to a night...

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Louisiana Department Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents arrested a Plaquemine man on alleged forgery charges on Oct. 14. LDWF Special Investigation Unit (SIU) agents arrested John Boudreaux, 51, on felony charges of forgery, injuring public records and filing false public documents and booked him into the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail. Agents started the investigation in September of 2011 after receiving a tip from an alligator hunter about a man illegally acquiring alligator tags from the department. Agents found that Boudreaux forged signatures on alligator tag applications in order to obtain the rights to hunt alligators on land that he did not have permission. According to LDWF records, Boudreaux illegally obtained 150 tags and harvested 149 alligators in West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes since 2001. An alligator hunter must either own land...

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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Inland Fisheries Division is currently distributing a Florida strain of weevils throughout the state to fight against aquatic invasive weeds. The weevils will serve as a biocontrol management tool in combination with herbicide treatments to help combat common salvinia.  The weevils are host specific, which means they will only consume common salvinia and will not damage native vegetation.
"Other parts of the world, also suffering from the take over of these noxious weeds, have seen much relief after the introduction and establishment of these tiny insects," said LDWF biologist, Rachel Walley.  "Herbicide treatments for the common salvinia species are effective, but very expensive.  We hope weevils will provide a more cost efficient manner in controlling aquatic plants."
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