Weifenbach/Burgard 3-acre prairie in St. Landry Parish

Dona Weifenbach and Neil Burgard’s prairie was not the realization of a lifelong dream of creating native habitat. It was a serendipitous outcome born of their desire for a bigger buffer from possible development on adjacent properties. The quiet country life was always appealing to them. Their life together had begun in the early 1980s…

A new prairie in the neighborhood

Imagine driving down a country road in Southwest Louisiana. It’s flat as far as you can see, with occasional brick houses and mobile homes facing the road, and expansive tracts of sugarcane fields, crawfish and rice ponds, or fallow fields making up the rest. There are almost certainly some cattle grazing in pastures along your…