Keith Ozmore (deceased)

Region: Pineywoods

Topics: Government, Oysters, Wallisville, Houston Ship Channel, Journalism, Media, Flooding


Mr. Ozmore retired to Huntsville but earlier worked as a reporter and editor in Alabama (Montgomery Advertiser) and Texas (Houston Press) for hunting, fishing and other outdoor sports, as a Congressional aide to U.S. Representative Bob Eckhardt, and as an official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In his work for Rep. Eckhardt, he became involved in efforts to protect Galveston Bay from shell dredging, Houston Ship Channel water pollution, and construction of the Wallisville Reservoir on the Trinity River. As staff for FEMA he carried on his interest in water resource issues by working on flood insurance and mapping to reduce casualties and construction in the floodplain.
 

Interviewed

October 8, 1999
Huntsville, Texas
Reels 2046 and 2047