Louisiana hunters soon will be able to add alligators to their trophy rooms after Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill to create a recreational season as the reptile population explodes in the state. Senate ...

Last week, a bill to establish a recreational alligator hunting season passed in the state senate. While Louisiana currently allows highly-regulated commercial alligator hunting, this would open up ...

Bonafide Louisiana residents will soon be allowed to hunt alligators for sport, but it won’t be the open-season, no-limits culling of the swamps people might imagine. The Louisiana Wildlife and ...

Louisiana may expand its wild alligator harvesting opportunities to recreational hunters if the Legislature passes a bill that secured unanimous approval in a committee hearing March 11. Franklin ...

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry appears to be using his annual alligator hunt, his biggest annual political fundraising event, to launch a long-expected bid for governor, passing out “Team ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Louisiana lawmaker is pushing to open a recreational alligator hunting season, citing a growing gator population and unused commercial hunting tags being returned each year ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) – Bills creating an annual recreational alligator season from October through December have begun advancing through the state Legislature this week. Following the passage of ...

Louisiana's Legislature has approved a bill to create the state's first recreational alligator hunting season. The season is intended to manage a growing alligator population, which now exceeds 3 ...