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Singer Connections

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published January 8, 2019 at 2:07 PM EST

Many people in northeast Louisiana are familiar with the legend of a buried silver bell in the Tensas swamp by the antebellum plantation owner Norman Frisbee. Yet there is another treasure story from 600 miles away with convoluted connections to this same spectacular wetland forest in Madison and Tensas parishes. As is often the case in such tales, anecdotal evidence is bountiful, but hard facts are slippery as fish eels.

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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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