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Wildlife Values

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K. Ouchley

Most Bayou Diversity programs involve wildlife in some form or fashion.  But who places value on wildlife and just how much is wildlife worth these days?  A recent report issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is enlightening.

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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