The conservancy helped acquire 22,765 acres of the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge that connected it to the WMA on the north side.

The kite is not federally protected but the United States Fish and Wildlife Service considers the bird a "Species-at-Risk".

[5] Other wildlife include the white-tailed deer, rabbit, squirrel, wild turkey lottery hunts, waterfowl, snipe, and woodcock.

Trapping includes beaver, nutria, mink, muskrat, opossum, raccoon, coyote, and bobcat.

[6] Louisiana quillwort (Isoetes louisianensis), found in Washington and St. Tammany parishes, was classified as an endangered species in 1992.