Company:The Lacassane Company

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The Lacassane Company
TypePrivate
IndustryLand management; agriculture; real estate; natural resources
Founded1929; 97 years ago (1929)
Headquarters
Lake Charles, Louisiana
,
United States
Key people
William D. Blake (president)[1]
ProductsNative seed and ecotype plant materials (via subsidiary)
Websitelacassane.com


The Lacassane Company is a privately held land management and real estate company based in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It owns and manages approximately 21,000 acres of agricultural land, marsh and coastal prairie in Jefferson Davis, Cameron and Beauregard parishes, where it operates rice and cattle enterprises, leases land for oil and gas development and manages wetlands mitigation banks and guided hunting operations.[2][3] The company is also the parent of the Louisiana Native Seed Company and the Lacassane Club, a private waterfowl hunting club.[2][4]

History

The Lacassane company continued with the previous form of tenant farming, increasing the original cattle herd, establishing trapping, hunting, oil and gas leases, and then the wetlands mitigation project. The Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937, when the company sold 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) south of the Illinois Plant to the United States Government for $51,774.00.

Operations

The Illinois Plant is called the Lacassane Coastal Prairie Mitigation Bank and the Ragley property, in conjunction with the "Calcasieu Mitigation Bank" and partnered with Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP),[5] is known as the Bill Jackson Longleaf Savannah Mitigation Bank. Both have been designated (through The Lacassane Company) by the Corps of Engineers as a mitigation bank providing ecosystem services to the public in the form of Environmental mitigation (compensatory mitigation) to ensure the no net loss wetlands policy[6] is followed to prevent Biodiversity loss that keeps the greenhouse debt in check. The Lacassane Company partnered with The Coastal Plain Conservancy to hold conservation servitudes on the land. The banks are monitored and maintained by Wildlands, Inc., an environmental consulting and plant propagation company.

The company operations now include land leases for waterfowl (Waterfowl Limited Liability Company)[7] and other hunting,[3] cattle grazing, alligator hide and egg harvesting, oil and gas exploration, and wetland projects. A pumping system through canals, laterals, the Bell City ditch, the Lacassine Bayou and the Mermentau River provides irrigation for the farming operations.[8] The company's SIC code (Lessors of Real Property, NEC) is 6519 and the NAICS CODE (Lessors of Other Real Estate Property) is 531190.[9]

Louisiana Native Seed Company

In 2006, the company became the parent of Louisiana Native Seed Company, which supplies native seed and plant materials used in restoration and conservation projects.[2] A 2012 Natural Resources Conservation Service list of conservation seed vendors in Louisiana included Louisiana Native Seed Company as a vendor.[10]

The Lacassane Club

The Lacassane Club is a private waterfowl hunting club operated as part of the company’s land-leasing and hunting activities in southwest Louisiana.[2][4]


The company has been a party to litigation involving mineral interests in Louisiana, including a 2003 decision of the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal concerning partition of mineral interests.[11] A related federal appellate case involving Lacassane Company and Waterfowl Limited Liability Company addressed issues connected to mineral rights affecting federal lands in the same region.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Hebert House (Cameron Parish, Louisiana) (Report). National Park Service. September 1997. https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/5ff2c511-d9f2-45e9-b995-9dbd79c3bd24. Retrieved 11 December 2025. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "About". https://www.lacassane.com/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 John Maxwell Hamilton (November–December 2009). "The Thrills of the Hunt". Cigaraficionado.com (Cigar Aficionado). http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/The-Thrills-of-the-Hunt_9282/p/2. Retrieved June 23, 2014. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "No lack at Lacassine or Lacassane: Duck hunting tips for southwest Louisiana". 1 November 2014. https://www.louisianasportsman.com/hunting/waterfowl-duck-hunting/no-lack-at-lacassine-or-lacassane-duck-hunting-tips-for-southwest-louisiana/. 
  5. ↑ "Calcasieu Bank". Mitigation Banking. Ecosystem Investment Partners. 2010. http://www.calcasieubank.com/. Retrieved June 21, 2014. 
  6. ↑ "mitigation regulation". EPA. https://www.epa.gov/cwa-404/compensatory-mitigation#recent. 
  7. ↑ "Opencorporates". Louisiana Secretary Of State, Commercial Division. 10 May 2013. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_la/34875076K. Retrieved June 19, 2014. 
  8. ↑ "Company info". Manta.com. http://www.manta.com/c/mmjr9dj/the-lacassane-company-inc. Retrieved June 19, 2014. 
  9. ↑ "Company profile". http://the-lacassane-company-inc.lake-charles.la.amfibi.com/us/c/19127214-the-lacassane-company-inc. Retrieved June 19, 2014. 
  10. ↑ Conservation seed vendors for Louisiana (Report). United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. May 2012. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/lapmctn11237.pdf. Retrieved 11 December 2025. 
  11. ↑ "Lacassane Company, Inc. & Waterfowl Limited Liability Company v. Jardin Minerals Company (La. Ct. App. 3 Cir. 2003)". https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914b7f6add7b04934782576. 
  12. ↑ "Waterfowl Limited Liability Company and Lacassane Company, Inc. v. United States, 453 F.3d 291 (5th Cir. 2006)". https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/453/291/484745/. 

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