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Louisiana Ferries

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published March 27, 2017 at 9:00 AM EDT

Louisiana's bayous and rivers have long been considered blessings and banes, depending on one's preferred mode of transportation. In a land laced with aquatic arteries, streams were the only practical means of conveyance for centuries. Only when colonial authorities began planning a system of roads to facilitate European settlement and economic development did the waterways become appreciated as substantial barriers to progress.

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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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