The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has reopened Rice Field Road and Signo Road on the Thistlethwaite Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The road was closed due to oil and gas activity.
Thistlethwaite WMA is located three miles northeast of Washington off Louisiana Highway 10 in central St. Landry Parish.
Available game species include deer, squirrel, rabbit, wood duck, and woodcock. For birders, hawks, owls, woodpeckers, and neotropical migrant songbirds are common. LDWF maintains approximately one mile of wooded trails on the WMA.
All visitors to Thistlethwaite WMA and all LDWF WMAs must have either a WMA Access Permit, Senior Hunting/Fishing License, Louisiana Sportsman’s Paradise License, or Lifetime Hunting/Fishing License. Go to https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/page/wmarefugeconservation-area-licenses-and-permits for more information.
For more information on this WMA, go to https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/page/thistlethwaite or contact the Lafayette Region at 337-262-2080 or Schuyler Dartez at sdartez@wlf.la.gov or Arthur Hebert at ahebert@wlf.la.gov