Little River Wildlife Management Area: hunting and access

About Little River WMA

Acreage: 6,045, taken from the LDWF area page. Parishes differ between LDWF pages (Grant on the list, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides on the area page); the mapped boundary falls in Grant, LaSalle. Among the 52 wildlife management areas on this site it ranks 34th by size. LDWF lists the owner as LDWF, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Owners as printed above the schedule: LDWF (4,936 acres, Pineville Office); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1,109 acres); Lasalle Parish School Board (441 acres). The shapefile gives 2004 as its start date.

In LDWF words: Little River WMA is primarily bottomland hardwoods and often floods from late winter through spring. Common tree species include bitter pecan and overcup and willow oak. There are also several cypress-tupelo sloughs. Swamp privet, water elm, mayhaw, and seedlings of the overstory make up the midstory. Understory species growth varies greatly with elevation. The higher areas within the floodplain support greenbrier, blackberry, and peppervine as well a variety of annual forbs and grasses. Areas of low elevation have very limited understory growth. The upland sites are composed of loblolly pine and stands of mixed pine hardwoods. There is a diversity of tree and understory species in these areas. LDWF manages this WMA with annual prescribed fires to improve wildlife habitat.

Hunting, per LDWF: Primary game species include squirrel, wood duck, and turkey. There is a youth squirrel season. Deer, rabbit, and woodcock hunting is also available.

On the game list: White-tailed deer, Wild turkey, Ducks and geese, Small game, Raccoon, Squirrels, Rabbits, Woodcock.

From the area page, 2026-27 regulations (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries); checked November 4, 2026.

Towns, LDWF offices and shops near Little River WMA

Georgetown lies 7 miles from the Little River WMA point. Jena has the most people of the five: 4,133. The Grant Parish enforcement office is listed by LDWF (captain John Volentine).

Towns from places.json (Census 2024 estimates); LDWF offices from the LDWF Contact Us page; businesses from services.json listings; straight-line miles. Checked November 4, 2026.

Little River WMA hours on key season dates

On wildlife management areas and other public land, waterfowl hunting ends at noon this season (Atchafalaya Delta and Pass-a-Loutre excepted).

WMA waterfowl ends at noon.

Hours rules from the 2026-2027 Louisiana Hunting and WMA Regulations and La. R.S. 56:116.1; sunrise and sunset worked out for this location with the NOAA solar formula (Central Time); checked November 4, 2026. Legal hours for every parish.

Wildlife and landscape for Little River WMA

Little River WMA: the common questions