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Weather and Wildlife

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published February 19, 2018 at 9:00 AM EST

Spells of harsh winter weather occasionally disrupt the daily lives of many people in Louisiana. Technological advancements in the last 100 years, however, minimize the impacts to a short period of inconvenience for most. Consider the differences now and during the Civil War era as described by a Confederate soldier.

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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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