A Wetland Biography: Seasons on Louisiana’s Chenier Plain

A Wetland Biography: Seasons on Louisiana’s Chenier Plain
ISBN-10
0292728123
ISBN-13
9780292728127
Category
Science
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Author
Gay M. Gomez

Description

"Louisiana's Chenier Plain is a 2,200-square-mile region of marshes and oak-covered ridges (cheniers) that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from Sabine Lake to Vermilion Bay. Its inhabitants, some 6,000 people of Cajun and other ancestries, retain strong economic and cultural ties to the land and its teeming wildlife. Gomez explores the interaction of the land, people, and wildlife of the Chenier Plain, revealing both the uniqueness of the region and the challenges it faces". -- Jacket.

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