Evangeline Parish

Next, we're coming back to Louisiana.

and going to Evangeline Parish.

Evangeline? Evangeline Parish.

Not Evangelist.

Evangeline Parish.

We're going to be talking about some supposedly more law enforcement professionals looking for love or looking for something in the wrong places.

This is what happens when you start DEI hiring people and You know, it's been years, but all the shit's just coming to a head.

And the third thing you need to know before tomorrow, two more Louisiana corrections officers have been arrested.

This time it happened in Evangeline Parish.

Two officers were charged with bringing illegal drugs into jail yesterday.

Sheriff Charles Guillory said bringing illegal drugs into the facility so inmates are getting illegal drugs and they are impaired.

I...

Look, I grew up hunting in Evangeline Parish.

Uh, my family, we also had a camp over at Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area, which is right there next to Catahoula Lake.

Uh, so I did grow up making trips out to Catahoula Lake as well.

I don't hunt it, uh, as often nowadays as I did whenever I, uh, I came up as a kid and when we had our camp at Dewey Wills.

During those years, I used to make more trips to Catahoula just simply because, um, you know, I was in that area a lot more.

Now I live in southeast Louisiana, and it's, it's more of a haul for me to go, even though my new camp I got, it's not too far from there, uh, which is part of why I got a new camp in where I'm at in the central part of the state, because I could hunt WMAs right around Evangeline Parish, uh, I could hunt- Dewey Weals, I could hunt Catahoula, and I'm all within about 20 to 30 minutes driving distance of each one of those areas, um, that I could make hunts wherever I wanna go and try out different wildlife management areas.

So I really like that about it.

So it makes it, I won't say it makes economic development easy, but it sure does give us a great tool in our toolbox.

I know because I was a resident for the first 20 years of my life of the Acadiana region growing up in Evangeline Parish.

I know the advantages that exist there as you talk about, as you try to attract investment.

What are the biggest challenges that you face?

You know, for me, before the ducks, before the private land battling for waterfowl, for ducks on it, the leases, before any of that.

It was just me and my shotgun and my squirrel vest and woods behind my house growing up in the country in Evangeline Parish.

That's where I cut my teeth on learning my way around the woods, learning how to navigate, learning how to stalk my prey, learning how to stalk my prey in order to be able to put food on the table.

And as I got older, I continued to evolve as a hunter.

Learned how to hunt on my own once I got old enough to do it without my dad.

And we were putting food on the table so we could have suppers with all of our friends in high school.

And that's one of the things that I loved about the area I grew up on or in in Evangeline Parish that I miss nowadays was going to those suppers, what we called suppers.

And it was just a weekly gathering of during this time of year where we all got together and we would cook squirrel, we would cook ducks, we would cook whatever wild game that we pursued in our adventures out there to hunt.