That Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is looking for anyone willing to lease their land to hunters for the opening day of dove season in September. Research and Survey Program Manager Jeffrey Duguay says it’s got to be at least 50 acres, and not all fields will be eligible to make the easy money. Duguay says doves can be pretty picky.
“They need to be areas that typically have a lot of bare ground, and also a lot of different types of seed, and it has to be seed that is from a plant that has been growing there. You can’t go out there and spread sunflower seeds or something, because that would be baiting.”
Baiting could land you in legal trouble as well.
Duguay says it’s a decent little payday for plots of farm land that likely won’t be used anymore by September 7th.
“The maximum that we pay is for a field that is 500 acres or more, and that’s 2,500 dollars. Then it goes down from there.”
The minimum payout is 950 dollars.
And if someone leasing your land for dove hunting were to get injured?
“If individuals allow folks to hunt on their property, and those individuals get hurt in some way, the landowner is not liable.
LDF says about one to five landowners take them up on the offer every year.
