The decision to go in a new direction with this land was not simple. People like me and my siblings who inherit land but never grew up on it are often in a quandary as to what to do with these generous gifts from our parents. What ends up happening with it is often dependent…
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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…
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