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Saving A Paradise: A man-made habitat draws thousands of birds

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By John Snell Verified
| KPLC-TV (Lake Charles, LA) Verified
NEW IBERIA, La. — Forty years ago, Mike Richard was looking for a way to reduce the amount of groundwater being used at his family’s nursery near New Iberia. He converted a cattle pasture into a series of ponds. “I needed an irrigation pond to treat the water for the nursery and to capture runoff, rainwater coming from the hillside,” Richard said. He had a second goal in mind when he designed the ponds. “I built islands on it because I wanted to have a habitat for the aquatic birds,” he said.
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Saving A Paradise: A man-made habitat draws thousands of birds

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By John Snell Verified
| WVUE-TV (New Orleans, LA) Verified
NEW IBERIA, La. — Forty years ago, Mike Richard was looking for a way to reduce the amount of groundwater being used at his family’s nursery near New Iberia. He converted a cattle pasture into a series of ponds. “I needed an irrigation pond to treat the water for the nursery and to capture runoff, rainwater coming from the hillside,” Richard said. He had a second goal in mind when he designed the ponds. “I built islands on it because I wanted to have a habitat for the aquatic birds,” he said.
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Saving a Paradise

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By John Snell Verified
| WVUE-TV (New Orleans, LA) Verified
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Mississippi River Delta stretches over roughly 2.7 million acres, including the largest area of brackish marsh on the North American continent. The delta supports vast wetlands and fisheries, wildlife habitat, and is a key flyway for migrating birds. “There’s more life in wetlands and marsh and swamps than almost anywhere else on the planet,” said Foster Creppel, an outdoorsman and coastal activist in Plaquemines Parish.
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