Washington Parish, Louisiana
Unit info
- Game species
- White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey
- Group
- Central Louisiana
- Area
- N/A
- Public land
- N/A
Season & harvest data is published for no species so far. White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey also occur here — that data can be added as the community contributes.
About this unit
AI-compiled · sourcedWashington Parish occupies the pine hills of the Florida Parishes in the far southeast corner of Louisiana, drained by the Bogue Chitto River and its tributaries flowing toward the Pearl River along the Mississippi border. Bogue Chitto NWR spans the parish providing a substantial block of public hunting land in bottomland hardwood and pine habitat that supports deer, turkey, and Louisiana black bear. The terrain and hunting character here more closely resemble Mississippi than the coastal parishes, with river-bottom whitetail hunting driving most activity.
Rolling longleaf pine uplands, bottomland hardwood floodplains along the Bogue Chitto and Pearl rivers, creek drainages, and natural open areas; more topographic relief than coastal parishes with a distinctly Mississippi-influenced landscape character.
Moderate; more rural than neighboring St. Tammany with less competition on public lands; Bogue Chitto NWR acreage is large enough to disperse hunters effectively outside of peak opener weekends.
OTC tags statewide; river-bottom deer along the Bogue Chitto and Pearl corridors show good body size for the Florida-parish region; rut activity in late November concentrates buck movement along river benches.
Wild turkey inhabit pine-hardwood edges and respond well to calls in the spring season; Louisiana black bear are present in the parish as part of the Bogue Chitto-Pearl River recovery corridor but no hunting season is open; feral hogs widespread in bottomland areas.
Bogue Chitto NWR river corridor is the most productive publicly accessible deer travel route in the Florida Parishes; Washington Parish is one of the few Louisiana parishes where hunters have a realistic chance of encountering a wild Louisiana black bear.
Questions, tips & discussion
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Boundaries: LDWF parish-based deer management units. Community info last updated 15d ago.