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Bullfrogs

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published August 24, 2015 at 9:00 AM EDT

Eighty years ago wherever there was freshwater habitat in the state of Louisiana, it would have been difficult to sleep during the warm nights of May. The booming territorial choruses of our largest frog, said to resemble the roaring bellows of bulls, were common. Now greatly diminished in numbers throughout their range, bullfrogs are native to the eastern half of the United States.

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Kelby Ouchley

Kelby was a biologist and manager of National Wildlife Refuges for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. He has worked with alligators in gulf coast marshes and Canada geese on Hudson Bay tundra. His most recent project was working with his brother Keith of the Louisiana Nature Conservancy on the largest floodplain restoration project in the Mississippi River Basin at the Mollicy Unit of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, reconnecting twenty-five square miles of former floodplain forest back to the Ouachita River.

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