Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area

Protected area in Louisiana, United States

Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area
Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Location within Louisiana
Location	Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes
Coordinates	29°25′0″N 90°27′0″W / 29.41667°N 90.45000°W / 29.41667; -90.45000
Area	33,488 acres (135.52 km)
Governing body	Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA

Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area, also referred to as the Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA (French: Pointe Au Chien), is a 33,488 acres (13,552 ha) protected area located in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, that is owned and managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).

Location

The WMA is located approximately 15 miles southeast of Houma, east of Montegut and LA 55, west of Galliano and Golden Meadow on LA 1. The WMA is separated into two sections by LA 665 and Bayou Pointe Au Chien, that runs northwest to southeast, along with the parish boundaries.

Description

Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA consists of three units, Grand Bayou, Pointe-aux-Chenes and Montegut. The WMA is mostly intermediate to brackish marsh and mainly accessible by boat on the many ponds, bayous, and canals but with ample highway access. Game species include waterfowl, deer, rabbit, squirrel, rails, gallinules, and snipe. Inland saltwater fish species, crabs, and shrimp are also present as well as freshwater fish in the northern parts. The WMA participates in the Louisiana dove hunting program

4,689 acres (1,898 ha) was proposed as a limited access area in 2010 and by the 2012-2013 season the Montegut Unit and the upper quarter of the Pointe-aux-Chenes Unit, both on the east side of LA 665, have been designated as limited access, meaning paddlecraft only.

Restoration

Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) and a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant allowed 35 Shell employees to plant a second round of 600 bald cypress saplings between protective levees on the WMA access road. The first round involved planting 500 saplings, that are reported as thriving, as part of a goal of restoring one million acres of degraded lands and critical wetlands, in the lower Mississippi River Delta.

References

Google maps: Point-Aux-Chenes WMA- Retrieved 2018-09-11
LDWF: Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA- Retrieved 2018-09-11
The Times-Picayune (Nola): WMA dove hunting- Retrieved 2018-09-11
Louisiana Sportsman: Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA 'limited access area' detailed: Posted 2010-03-22, retrieved 2018-09-11
The Times-Picayune (Nola): Duck-season opener: Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA primed for perfection: Posted 2013-11-05, retrieved 2018-09-11
Restore the Earth Foundation- Retrieved 2018-09-11
Gulf Coast Conservation Grants Program- Retrieved 2018-09-11
A Journey of One Million Acres Begins with One Tree- Retrieved 2018-09-11

Protected areas of Louisiana

Federal

National Historical Parks	Cane River Creole Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve New Orleans Jazz
National Monuments	Poverty Point
National Marine Sanctuary	Flower Garden Banks
National Forests	Kisatchie
National wild and scenic rivers	Saline Bayou
National Wildlife Refuge System	Atchafalaya Bayou Cocodrie Bayou Sauvage Bayou Teche Big Branch Marsh Black Bayou Lake Bogue Chitto Breton Cameron Prairie Cat Island Catahoula D'Arbonne Delta East Cove Grand Cote Handy Brake Lacassine Lake Ophelia Mandalay Red River Sabine Shell Keys Tensas River Upper Ouachita

State

State Parks	Bayou Segnette Bogue Chitto Chemin-A-Haut Chicot Cypremort Point Fairview-Riverside Fontainebleau Grand Isle Hodges Gardens Jimmie Davis Lake Bistineau Lake Bruin Lake Claiborne Lake D-Arbonne Lake Fausse Pointe North Toledo Bend Palmetto Island Poverty Point Reservoir St. Bernard Sam Houston Jones South Toledo Bend Tickfaw
State Historic Sites	Audubon Centenary Fort Jesup Fort Pike Fort St. Jean Baptiste Forts Randolph & Buhlow Locust Grove Longfellow-Evangeline Los Adaes Mansfield Plaquemine Lock Port Hudson Poverty Point Rebel State Rosedown Plantation Winter Quarters
State Preservation Area	Louisiana State Arboretum
State Forests	Alexander Indian Creek
State Wildlife Refuges	Elmer's Island Marsh Island Rockefeller St. Tammany State Terrebonne Barrier Islands White Lake Wetlands
Wildlife management areas	Acadiana Conservation Corridor Atchafalaya Delta Attakapas Barataria Preserve Bayou Macon Bayou Pierre Ben Lilly Conservation Area Ben's Creek Big Colewa Bayou Big Lake Biloxi Bodcau Boeuf Bonnet Carré Spillway Buckhorn Camp Beauregard Catahoula Lake Clear Creek Dewey Wills Elbow Slough Elm Hall Esler Field Floy Ward McElroy Fort Polk Grassy Lake Hutchinson Creek Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh Bayou Maurepas Swamp Old River Control Ouachita Pass A Loutre Pearl River Peason Ridge Pointe-aux-Chenes Pomme de Terre Richard K. Yancey Russell Sage Sabine Sabine Island Salvador/Timken Sandy Hollow Sherburne (See: Atchafalaya Delta) Soda Lake Spring Bayou Tangipahoa Parish School Board Thistlethwaite Three Rivers Tunica Hills Union Walnut Hill West Bay

Other

Private	Bird City Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary
City	Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center

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