Bird event on 100-year-old coastal La. farm shows ’rice and conservation can go hand-in-hand’

This primeval Louisiana landscape is the entrance to nearly 6,000-acre Live Oak Farm — a bucolic spot on the Gulf Coast, where rice has been cultivated for the past 100 years, and where bird lovers and naturalists can visit for an expedition designed to showcase the symbiotic relationship between rice cultivation, coastal wetlands rehabilitation and migratory bird patterns