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Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country

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Louisiana’s bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and plenty of other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands, marshes, or even uplands to dominate the state’s landscape. In Bayou-Diversity, conservationist Kelby Ouchley reveals the bayou’s intricate internet of natural world.

Through a number of essays about Louisiana’s natural history, Ouchley details an excellent array of plants and animals found within the Bayou State. Baldcypress, orchids, feral hogs, eels, black bears, bald eagles, and cottonmouth snakes live within the well over 400 bayous of the region. Collectively, Ouchley’s vignettes portray vibrant and complex habitats. But human interaction with the bayou and our role in its survival, Ouchley argues, will decide the way forward for these intricate ecosystems.

Bayou-Diversity narrates the tale of the bayou one wildflower, one creature at a time, in turn illustrating the bigger picture of this treasured and troubled Louisiana landscape.

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