ISLAND LOST

Parking Lot Island, Baton Rouge LA 2008 from Lands' End

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After 170 years , the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indian tribe are abandoning the island they have inhabited, hunted and fished! Repeated flooding by hurricanes and storms, has driven the tribe off the Terrebonne Parish island, and onto higher ground behind the levees!

The move symbolizes one of the most visible defeats in South Louisiana’s long battle to preserve land mass and fight coastal erosion.