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The Cajun Prairie

A Photographic Essay

by Malcolm F. Vidrine et al.

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The Cajun Prairie is 99.9 percent destroyed. However, the authors discovered remnants of this prairie habitat along railroad rights-of-ways in the 1980s and photographed these remnants during their years of investigation. More than 200 of these images are arranged into monthly displays in an effort to provide views of the prairie as it may have appeared in the 1800s. The remnants were each distinctive in their biodiversity, and each provided a splash of color from the blooming plants at different times of the year. These remnants are now decimated; thus these images are basically all that remains. An essay on the discovery of these remnants and the discoveries made while studying these remnants introduces and closes the monthly presentation of images.
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http://cajunprairiegardens.com
Features & Details
  • Primary Category: Education
  • Project Option: Standard Portrait, 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
    # of Pages: 386
  • Isbn
    • Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9780368365065
    • Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9780368365072
    • Softcover: 9780368365089
  • Publish Date: Feb 28, 2019
  • Language English
  • Keywords Cajun Prairie, natural history, ecology
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About the Creator
mvidrine
Malcolm Vidrine

Professor Emeritus of Biology. Active biology researcher with numerous accomplishments, including working on teams that discovered leprosy in wild armadillos, modelled mosquito and other invertebrate populations in southwestern Louisiana rice fields, discovered and inventoried prairie remnants then restored prairies in southwestern Louisiana (Cajun Prairie), studied biogeography of freshwater mussels in Louisiana, and described new species and numerous associations of symbiotic freshwater mites (Unionicola) and their molluscan hosts. Dr. Vidrine also taught biology and genetics for 37 years at LSU Eunice, where he still serves as a part-time instructor. He has published 116 scientific articles, 10 popular articles and 20 books on the above research projects.

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