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The Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival is called "One of the Oldest and Coldest" festival in Louisiana. Takes place in the heart of winter, the second weekend of January. The Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival was chosen as a Top 20 Event by the Southeast Tourism Society in 1989, 2012 and 2013.[1] This award is a coveted honor among 12 member states.

Industries honored

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The festival honors ten native industries, all vital to Cameron Parish, on a rotating basis.[2]

In conjunction with each festival, a queen's pageant is held; an individual is named King Fur to represent the industry being honored; a cookbook is published which contains photographs and winners from the previous festival; a parade is held, and the festival hosts a delegation from its sister festival, the National Outdoor Show from Cambridge MD.[3]

Festival contests include oyster shucking, muskrat and nutria skinning, skeet shooting, trap setting, and duck and goose calling, and a Gumbo Cook-off. A booth located on the fairgrounds showcases the history of the festival. The festival also features carnival rides, exhibits, live music and dancing, and regional food.

History

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Inaugural festival

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The event originated in 1955 when U.S. Congressman Theo Ashton Thompson arranged the first fur and wildlife competition.[4]

The congressman of Cambridge, Maryland challenged Representative Thompson to send a local resident to compete in the National Fur Skinning Contest. Fifty-two-year-old Leon Hebert, a 25-year trapper, from Cameron was sent to the National Outdoor Show where he placed fifth in the nation that year.[5]

A small group of people met during the summer of 1955 in the Cameron Courthouse Building, to make plans for the first festival. Whitney Stine was chairman. Representatives of community organizations included: Whitney Stine - Cameron Lion's Club ((Lions Clubs International)), Edward Swindell, Sr. - Cameron Lion's Club, Hadley Fontenot - County Agent, Alvin Dyson - State Representative, Ray Burleigh - Cameron Lion's Club, Joe O'Donnell -Cameron Lion's Club, Mrs. Iva Free - Home Demonstration Agent, Roberta Rogers - Home Demonstration Club, Geneva Griffith - Home Demonstration Club and Sam Tarlton - Lake Charles Television and Radio Station. [5]

From this group of organizers came the Louisiana Fur & Wildlife Festival. The first festival was funded by the Cameron Parish Police Jury and private donations. This was to become known as "ONE OF THE OLDEST AND COLDEST FESTIVALS IN LOUISIANA" In 1962[6] and 1973 the festival was postponed for one week due to a severe cold wave.

Jennings B. Jones, Jr. served as master of ceremonies for the program on Dec 2 and 3, 1955. It was presided over by Cameron County Agent Hadley Fontenot, first festival president.[7]

Seventeen-year-old Vida Bess Brown, from Abbeville, was crowned "Miss Outdoor of Louisiana" by Ted O'Neal, Chief of the Fur and Bottoms Division of the Louisiana Wildlife Commission. She was presented with a nutria stole, a bouquet of roses by the Cameron Service Garage, and an expense paid trip to the National Outdoors Show in Cambridge, Maryland. The National Outdoor Show became a "Sister Festival" with the Cameron Festival. The two exchanged fur skinners and festival queens each year and the tradition continues today.[5]

Of 34 contestants, Meredith Giles was named the first "Cameron Parish Queen". Eleven-year-old J. A. Miller captured the Louisiana Junior Duck Calling contest and in years to come he became the World Champion Fur Skinner, following in the footsteps of his father Fletcher, and teaching his daughter Selika the art with her becoming the Women's Champion. His wife, Mary Jane Miller, held the Local and National Women's title many times.

Second festival

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The second annual festival was held on January 11–12, 1957 and $5000.00 in cash and trips were awarded along with fur coats to the Fur Queen contestants. Nancy Precht was crowned Fur Queen by Louisiana House of Representative, Alvin Dyson. She represented the festival at the Mardi Gras Ball in Washington, D.C. where she was presented to Vice-President and Mrs. Nixon. This tradition continues to the present time.

Floats were usually constructed in warehouses of the local menhaden plants, mud houses, garages, or anywhere workers could get out of the cold. Roland "Bolo" Trosclair was in charge of the parade at that time.

A raccoon was chosen as mascot for the festival. A contest of the area school children determined that Sha-oui would be the name of the mascot.

In Dec 1956, festival authorities invited major fur production parishes to attend; St Charles, St Bernard, St John, St. Mary, Jefferson, Plaquemines, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Iberia, Vermilion and Cameron.[8]

Subsequent festivals

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In 1969 the first King Fur is selected. King Fur I, Jack T. Styron represents the Menhaden (pogy fish) industry for the 14th annual Fur and Wildlife Festival. [9]

In 1972 the first Fur Festival Cookbook is published and continues today.[10]

Parishes with invitations to compete for the Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival Queen Crown: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Natchitoches, Plaquemines, Rapides, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Saint Tammany, Sabine, Vermillion, Vernon, Washington, Tangipahoa, and Terrebonne.

Cameron Elementary School was the annual staging ground for the Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival pageants until Hurricane Rita. After the 2005 storm, all that remain of the auditorium were the steel girders. The festival was canceled in 2006 due to the devastation of Hurricane Rita.

Activities for the 2007 50th annual Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival kicked off with pageants at the Lake Charles Civic Center's Rosa Hart Theater. The festival activities returned to the grounds of the old Cameron Elementary School in Cameron.[11]

The Fur queen invited several of her fellow festival queens to see her Parish anyway, both in its devastation and its natural splendor.[12]

In the early months of 2010, the Cameron Parish 4-H Junior Leaders complete a video documentary on the history of the Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival. The Youth Leaders interviewed past festival participants, contestants and queens and compiled the stories into a documentary.[13] Cameron Communications is a Festival $5,000 corporate sponsor now and in the next several years.[14]

The 54th annual Fur and Wildlife Festival held January 13–14, 2012 in downtown Cameron LA featured dog trials, back for the first time since Hurricane Rita.

With the 2020 hurricanes, Laura and Delta, and the COVID-19 pandemic causing 2021 to go on hiatus, the 63rd was deferred to 2022.

The 63rd Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival was held January 8, 2022 at the Burton Complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The 64th Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival will return January 13-14, 2023 to the Historic Cameron Courthouse fairgrounds in Cameron, Louisiana.

List of festivals

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Year Festival President Fur King Industry Honored Fur King Fur Queen Parish Represented Fur Queen Miss Cameron Parish
1955 Hadley Fontenot [15] Vida Bess Brown Vermillion I Meredith Giles
1957 Jan Hadley Fontenot Nancy Precht Cameron [16] II Nancy Precht‡
1958 Festival canceled due to the devastation of Hurricane Audrey.
1959 Hadley Fontenot Peggy Joyce Seago Iberia [17] III Marilyn Billings [18]
1960 Hadley Fontenot June Robicheaux St. Mary [19] IV Barbara Lane Dugas [20]
1961 Hadley Fontenot Debbie Ann LaBove Cameron [21] V Debbie Ann LaBove‡ [20]
1962 Hadley Fontenot Pat O'Neil Vermillion [21] VI Beverly Sue Rutherford [22]
1963 Hadley Fontenot Susan Bienvenue Terrebonne [23] VII Pamela Riggs [24]
1964 Hadley Fontenot Gail Catherine Broussard Iberia [25] VIII Judy Hebert [26]
1965 Hadley Fontenot Susan Arcement Vermillion [27] IX Elaine Broussard [28]
1966 Hadley Fontenot [29] Schere Saia Terrebonne [30] X Susan Kornegay [31]
1967 Hadley Fontenot [32] Linda Trappey Iberia [33] XI Charlene LaBove
1968 Jennings B. Jones, Jr.[34] Nancy Lea Jordan Plaquemines [35] XII Diane Warren [36]
1969 Jennings B. Jones, Jr. Jack T. Styron Menhaden [37] I Jane Weilbaecher St. Charles [38] XIII Sherry Cheramie
1970 Jennings B. Jones, Jr.[39] Alvin Dyson Fur II Doylene Lasiter St. Mary [40] XIV Cherie Griffith‡ [39]
1971 Jennings B. Jones, Jr.[41] Mark Richard Cattle III Cherie Kay Griffith Cameron [42] XV Janet Gail Riggs‡ [43]
1972 Jennings B. Jones, Jr.[44] John Paul Crain Oil IV Janet Gail Riggs Cameron [44] XVI Peggy Ann Kelley [45]
1973 Jennings B. Jones, Jr. Tom Steed Shrimp [46] V Gwendolyn Phelps Lafourche [47] XVII Debbie Precht[46]
1974 Jennings B. Jones, Jr.[48] Charles W. Hebert Rice [49] VI Ann Elizabeth Guillot St. John the Baptist [50] XVIII Susan Baccigalopi [49]
1975 Jennings B. Jones, Jr. Jerry Jones Hunting [51] VII Alexis Alexander Jefferson [51] XIX Susan Woodgett‡ [51]
1976 Jennings B. Jones, Jr. J. Burton Daigle Centennial King [52] VIII Susan Woodgett Cameron [52] XX Vickie Nunez [52]
1977 Jennings B. Jones, Jr. Ted Joanen Alligator [53] IX Jenny Bird St Charles [54] XXI Nancy Claire Nunez [55]
1978 Jennings B. Jones, Jr. Patrick Doody Menhadden [56] X Sharon Laney St. Charles [57] XXII "| Joni Gray‡ [56]
1979 Jennings B. Jones, Jr.[58] Fletcher Miller Fur [58] XI Joni Gray Cameron [58] XXIII Mary Diane McCall [59]
1980 Braxton Blake Conway LeBleu Cattle [60] XII Cindy Rice St. John the Baptist [61] XXIV Laura Hicks [60]
1981 Braxton Blake [62] Hadley A Fontenot & J.B. Jones 25TH Anniversary [63] XIII Donna Harmon Calcasieu [62] XXV Yvonne Marie Savoie‡ [63]
1982 J. Braxton Blake [64] Charles "Buster" Rogers Oil [64] XIV Yvonne Savoie Cameron [65] XXVI April Leger [64]
1983 Braxton Blake Roland Trosclair Jr. Shrimp [66] XV Andria Marie Bergeron Terrebonne [67] XXVII Wendy Wigley [66]
1984 Braxton Blake Charles H. Precht Sr. Rice [68] XVI Elizabeth Primm Terrebonne [68] XXVIII Selika Miller‡ [69]
1985 Braxton Blake Lyle "Butch" Crain Hunting and Wildlife [70] XVII Selika Miller Cameron [71] XXIX Stacy Mudd [70]
1986 Braxton Blake [72] Benny Welch Alligator [73] XVIII Kelly Foster Calcasieu [73] XXX Shontel Blanchard [72]
1987 Braxton Blake [74] Edward Wallace Swindell Jr Menhaden [74] XIX Lisa Roberts† Iberia [75] XXXI Dena Dawn Rutherford [74]
1988 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr Tom Mudd Fur [75] XX Karen Engeron Terrebonne [75] XXXII Kathryn Leigh Wilkerson [75]
1989 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [76] J.B. Meaux Cattle [77] XXI Michele Irene Morris Lafourche [78] XXXIII Rhonda Jennifer Perry [77]
1990 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [79] Joseph Braxton Blake Oil [80] XXII Lisa

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Terrebonne [79] XXXVI Dayna Elaine Willis [80]
1991 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [81] Phillip Trosclair Shrimp [81] XXIII Sonia Landry Iberia [82] XXXV Rene Rachelle LaLande [81]
1992 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [83] Claude Eagleson Rice [84] XXIV Kelley Marie Becnell St. John the Baptist [81] XXXVI Brandi Brice Soileau [84]
1993 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [85] Watkins Miller Wildlife [85] XXV Belinda "Denise" Clemons St. Tammany [86] XXXVII Tracie Marie Trahan [85]
1994 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr Larry McNeese Alligator [87] XXVI Erika Schwarz St. Tammany [88] XXXVIII Adrienne Larissa Picou‡ [87]
1995 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [89] Billy Doxey Oyster [90] XXVII Adrienne Picou Cameron [91] XXXIX Jennifer Leigh Broadus [90]
1996 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [92] Robert James Schwak Menhaden [92] XXVIII Marie Elise Des Ormeaux Vermillion [93] XL Adenise Michelle Trosclair [92]
1997 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr Darryl "Fats" Dupont Fur [94] XXIX Alison Hotard Iberia [94] XLI Melissa Ann Trahan [94]
1998 Hayes "Pete" Picou, Jr [95] Charlie Theriot Cattle [96] XXX Summer Leigh Parker† [96] Jefferson Davis XLII Heather Sturlese‡ [96]
1999 Clifton Hebert [95] Norman McCall Oil [96] XXXI Heather Sturlese Cameron [97] XLIII Amanda Broussard [95]
2000 Clifton Hebert [98] Don Bailey Shrimp [98] XXXII Millie Manning Harris Jefferson [98] XLIV Courtney Nicole Conner [98]
2001 Clifton Hebert [99] Mervin "Possum" Chesson Rice [99] XXXIII Courtney Tatman† [99] St. Charles XLV Shannon Suratt [99]
2002 Clifton Hebert Enos Joseph "Buster" Sturlese Hunting [100] XXXIV Shannon Hinton St. John the Baptist [100] XLVI Marylyn Alexis LeJeune [100]
2003 Johnny LeBlanc Charles Pettiford Alligator [101] XXXV Tiffany Wing Calcasieu XLVII Trista Semien‡ [102]
2004 Johnny LeBlanc [103] Jimmie Stutes Oyster [104] XXXVI Trista Zanora Semien Cameron [105] XLVIII Ashley Picou [105]
2005 Johnny LeBlanc [102] James "JA"Miller [106] Menhaden XXXVII Cadi Brook Pedigo Acadia [106] XLIX Ashley Kelly [106]
2006 Festival canceled due to the devastation of Hurricane Rita.
2007 Johnny LeBlanc [107] Rolland Primeaux 50TH Anniversary [108] XXXVIII Kayla Lavergne Vermilion [102] L Haley Willis [102]
2008 Johnny LeBlanc John R. "Nunu" Baccigalopi Fur [109] XXXIX Lauren Naquin Vermilion[102] LI Kami Savoie [102]
2009 Festival canceled due to the devastation of Hurricane Ike.
2010 Penelope Richard Billy Doland Cattle [110] XL Jada O'Blanc†[110] Vermilion LII Mikalee Mooney** [110]
2011 Penelope Richard Lee Harrison Oil [111] XLI Sarah Deanna Tinsler Acadia LIII Katelyn Reina
2012 Penelope Richard Elmer Peshoff Shrimp [112] XLII Mikalee Mooney [113] Beauregard LIV Kathryn Reina‡ [113]
2013 Penelope Richard Clifford Broussard Farming [114] XLIII Kathryn Reina [113] Cameron LV Juliann Lannin [113]
2014 Penelope Richard Huey Mhire Hunting [115] XLIV Carly Chaumont [115] Evangeline LVI Katie Little [115]
2015 Telesha Bertrand Guthrie Perry Fur and Alligator XLV Haleigh Willis Evangeline LVII Morgan Hardie
2016 Telesha Bertrand Adley Leo Dyson Sr. Oyster XLVI Julian Devillier † Acadia LVIII Baylie Duhon
2017 Telesha Bertrand Loston McEvers Fishing XLVII Kristal Marie Breaux* St. Charles LIX Savanna Boudreaux
2018 Telesha Bertrand "Sugarboy" Miller Crabbing XLVIII Sydney Richardelle Calcasieu LX Maeleigh Conner
2019 Telesha Bertrand J.C. Reina Cattle XLIX Hali Westerman Lafourche LXI Alivia Mudd‡
2020 Telesha Bertrand Willard "Yank" Savoie Energy L Alivia Mudd Cameron LXII Maddy Grayce Gordon
2021 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic and devastation of Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta.
2022 Telesha Bertrand Robert “Buster” McKoin Shrimp LI Gabrielle Guilbeau Vermillion LXIII Cesilee Oliver
2023 Telesha Bertrand Carol "Zeke" Wainwright Hunting and Wildlife LII Jordyn Kelley † Calcasieu LXIV Hadley Lemons
2024 Telesha Bertrand Howard Romero Fur and Alligator LIII Jadyn Devillier St. Martin LXV Makala Snyder
† LAFF QUEEN OF QUEENS / LAFF QUEEN (Representing The Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival)
‡ FUR QUEEN (Representing Cameron Parish)
* LAFF QUEEN OF QUEENS / LAFF QUEEN (Representing Another Festival)
** FUR QUEEN (Representing Another Parish)
Parish Winners Years
Cameron 13 1957, 1961, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2013, 2020
Vermillion 8 1956, 1962, 1965, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2022
Terrebonne 6 1963, 1966, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990,
Calcasieu 5 1981, 1986, 2003, 2018, 2023
Iberia 5 1959, 1964, 1967, 1987, 1991
St. Charles 5 1969, 1977, 1978, 2001, 2017
St. John the Baptist 5 1974, 1980, 1992, 1997, 2002
Acadia 3 2005, 2011, 2016
Lafourche 3 1973, 1989, 2019
Evangeline 2 2014, 2015
Jefferson 2 1975, 2000
St. Mary 2 1960, 1970
St. Tammany 2 1993, 1994
Beauregard 1 2012
Jefferson Davis 1 1998
Plaquemines 1 1968
St. Martin 1 2024

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