{"id":111459,"date":"2025-08-26T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111459\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:31:06","slug":"ldwf-looking-for-possible-wildlife-impacts-from-explosion-ahead-of-hunting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111459\/","title":{"rendered":"LDWF looking for possible wildlife impacts from explosion ahead of hunting season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMITE\u2014 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said they are looking into possible wildlife impacts ahead of hunting season.<\/p>\n<p>LDWF Biologist Director Mike Perot said the department gets over 150 oil spill calls a month, but the explosion from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/we-have-to-clean-up-a-big-mess-agencies-locals-still-working-to-clear-roseland-after-explosion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Smitty&#8217;s<\/a> is a unique situation because they are dealing with chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Dove season starts Sept. 6, archery season for deer starts Oct. 1, and rifle season starts in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perot said the department is in the early stages of testing and they are working with multiple agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think once we find a little more on what we\u2019re dealing with then we\u2019ll be able to make our decisions,\u201d Perot said<\/p>\n<p>Perot said there isn\u2019t time for the results to come in, but if you see anything unusual call Smitty\u2019s Wildlife Oil Spill Hotline at 832-514-9663.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking to hear any kind of reports, you know reports coming through the hotline,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMITE\u2014 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said they are looking into possible wildlife impacts ahead of hunting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-111459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}