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Heartwood Doe

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published September 5, 2016 at 9:00 AM EDT

Here on this property where we live and that we call Heartwood, there is an unwritten game law. It is "thou shall not hunt within a quarter-mile of the house." The doe that browses just outside my home office window at noon has tempted me on occasion to propose an amendment to this family statute.

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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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