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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 31, 2021 / Rules and Regulations adult must maintain visual and voice contact with the youth at all times.
Adult guardians are responsible for ensuring that youth hunters do not violate refuge rules.
iv We require waterfowl and gallinule hunters to remove all portable blinds and decoys from the refuge by 2
p.m. each day see 27.93 and 27.94 of this chapter.
v Migratory bird hunters are only allowed to enter the refuge after 4 a.m.
vi We allow waterfowl hunting daily until 2 p.m. during the State regular season, State teal season, and State youth and veteran waterfowl seasons.
We allow gallinule, snipe, and rail hunting until 2 p.m.
vii When hunting migratory game birds, you may only use dogs to locate, point, and retrieve game.
viii We allow only the use of reflective tacks as marking devices.
ix We only allow the incidental take of nutria with approved shot and weapons during any open waterfowl season on the refuge.
x We allow the incidental take of raccoon, feral hog, armadillo, opossum, and coyote with approved shot and weapons during any open season on the refuge.
2 Upland game hunting. We allow hunting of squirrel and rabbit, and the incidental take of nutria, coyote, raccoon, armadillo, and opossum, on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:
i We only allow hunting from the start of the State squirrel and rabbit seasons until the last day of State waterfowl season for the State Waterfowl Zone in which you are hunting.
ii We prohibit upland game hunting on days corresponding with refuge deer gun hunts.
iii Hunters must leave the refuge no later than 2 hours after legal sunset.
iv When hunting, you must possess only shot size 4 or smaller or 0.22
caliber rimfire rifles or smaller. We allow the use of air rifles.
v The conditions set forth at paragraphs d1i through iii and viii through x of this section apply.
3 Big game hunting. We allow the hunting of white-tailed deer, and the incidental take of feral hog, on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:
i We allow hunting of deer only with firearms see 27.42 of this chapter during 5 specific days during October and November. A youth gun hunt will occur during the last weekend of October. The general gun hunt will occur during the final full weekend in November. The youth gun hunt includes
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both Saturday and Sunday. The general gun hunt includes the Friday immediately before the weekend.
ii We allow archery deer hunting according to the State of Louisiana archery season. We close refuge archery hunting during refuge deer gun hunts.
iii We allow each hunter to possess only one deer per day; the deer may be a buck or a doe.
iv Hunters may use only portable deer stands. Hunters may erect deer stands no earlier than 48 hours before the deer archery season and must remove them from the refuge within 48
hours after the season closes see 27.93
of this chapter. Hunters may place only one deer stand on the refuge. Deer stands must have the owners State hunting license/sportsmans identification number clearly printed on the stand.
v The conditions set forth at paragraphs d1i through iii, viii, and x, and d2iii of this section apply.
vi We prohibit the use of deer decoys.
vii We prohibit organized deer drives. We define a deer drive as an organized or planned effort to pursue, drive, chase, or otherwise frighten or cause deer to move in the direction of any persons who is part of the organized or planned hunt and known to be waiting for the deer.
viii Deer hunters must display State Wildlife Management Area WMA
hunter-orange or blaze-pink as governed by State WMA regulations.
4 Sport fishing. We allow sport fishing in all refuge waters subject to the following conditions:
i We prohibit the use of unattended nets, traps, or lines trot, jug, bush, etc..
ii The condition set forth at paragraph d1i of this section applies.
iii The refuge is only open to recreational finfishing and shellfishing from legal sunrise to legal sunset.
e Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge1 Migratory game bird hunting. We allow hunting of duck, merganser, teal, coot, light and dark goose, snipe, rail, gallinule, dove, and woodcock on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:
i Each person age 18 and older must possess and carry a valid, signed refuge user brochure while on the refuge.
ii We allow waterfowl, snipe, rail, gallinule, dove, and goose hunting on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12 hour before legal sunrise until 2 p.m., including waterfowl hunting during the State teal season and State youth and veterans
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waterfowl seasons. We only allow hunting of woodcock until 2 p.m.
iii We allow light goose hunting for that part of the season that extends beyond the regular duck season from 12
hour before legal sunrise until 2 p.m.
iv We allow only temporary blinds, and hunters must remove blinds and decoys by 2 p.m. each day see 27.93
of this chapter.
v All youth hunters age 15 and younger must be supervised by an adult during all hunts. One adult may supervise up to two youths during small game hunts and migratory bird hunts, but may supervise only one youth during big game hunts. The supervising adult must maintain visual and voice contact with the youth at all times.
Adult guardians are responsible for ensuring that youth hunters do not violate refuge rules.
vi We prohibit hunting or discharge of firearms see 27.42 of this chapter within 500 feet 152 meters m of any residence adjacent to the refuge or oil and gas infrastructure on the refuge, or within 200 feet 61 m from the center of any road, railroad, levee, water control structure, designated public use maintained trail, designated parking area, or other designated public use facility.
vii We allow migratory bird hunters to enter the refuge no earlier than 4 a.m., and all hunters must exit the refuge no later than 2 hours after legal sunset.
viii We allow only reflective tacks as trail markers on the refuge.
ix We allow the incidental take of raccoon, feral hog, armadillo, opossum, and coyote with approved shot and weapons allowed during any open season on the refuge.
x We only allow the incidental take of nutria with approved shot and weapons during any open waterfowl duck, teal, merganser, light and dark goose, and coot season on the refuge.
2 Upland game hunting. We allow hunting of squirrel, rabbit, and quail, and the incidental take of nutria, coyote, raccoon, armadillo, and opossum, on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:
i When hunting, you must possess only shot size 4 or smaller, or 0.22
caliber rim-fire rifles or smaller. We allow the use of air rifles.
ii When hunting squirrel and rabbit, and for the incidental take of raccoon, we allow the use of dogs only after the close of the State archery deer season.
When hunting quail, you may only use dogs to locate, point, and retrieve.
iii The conditions set forth at paragraphs e1i, v, vi, and viii through x of this section apply.

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