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Teddy Roosevelt & Breton

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published December 18, 2017 at 9:00 AM EST

Historians agree that the American president with the greatest conservation legacy was Theodore Roosevelt. Among his many accomplishments in that arena was the protection of millions of acres that became units of the National Forest and National Park systems. Additionally, he protected another group of lands and waters specifically for their wildlife values. These became components of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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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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