Bayou-Diversity
Monday at 9 a.m., Tuesday at 7:45 a.m. and Thursday at 1 p.m.
Kelby Ouchley, former manager of Black Bayou Lake and other area National Wildlife Refuges, provides expert insight into the flora and fauna of Louisiana. Each week, he brings awareness of conservation ethics and education about what makes our area special -- and worth preserving.
Archived editions of Bayou-Diversity (December 2014 and older) can be found here.
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On the morning of January 9, 1951, two Baton Rouge newspapers, the States Times and Morning Advocate ran a story that fueled coffee shop gossip and… -
I'm not going to be so presumptuous as to tell you your business, like how to grow or how not to grow all spraddled out like that. You've been around…
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One of the joys and hazards of readingis that it can send one down previously unconsidered paths. My favorite childhood book was Wilson Rawls' Where the…
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What does it say about a country that shoots and poisons its national emblem into extinction? This scenario almost played out in America, at least in the…
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In the realm of commercial forestry, trees with holes are undesirable. They take up space where more valuable, sound trees can grow. For that reason…
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On the morning of December 20, 1987, I was working near the mainline Mississippi River levee in Tensas Parish. Waterfowl hunting season was ongoing, and I…
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There was a poetry slam going down at the pond this warm, winter morning. It was discernable when I first stepped out the front door of my house on the…
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The days of this tree are numbered and she won't likely last the winter. This prognosis is not arboreal soothsaying but rather the physics involved in…
