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everywhere you the concert in the museum now there is one. rivers creeks swamps the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. and because of this abundance today everyone. has a. louisiana

is. in some ways a dream place. if you have a little bug or whatever within ten minutes you can be away from. you can be in the wilderness. ok have some fish for supper he can watch the birds to your heart and say that's the beauty you know you can own a little place like this where i can have my own little swamp on the wall along it's a really is a magic place to live. in

the space of about five to seven thousand years all of coastal louisiana was built through the mississippi river every year the river delivered tons of sediment which slowly but surely built out to the sea creating a very biologically diverse ecosystem. very wide unload coastal flood plain created by the mississippi became an ideal place for people to say it all because of the fisheries for animals and so on and also navigation and trade because of this parade route. well unfortunately because of the nature of the land and the rain being close to sea level. flooding is

a big issue. so the europeans who came in from from the western part of europe had grown up if you will build a levee systems to think about the levee systems in the netherlands so we had the the birth of new orleans and i levee system associated with it and that levee system continued to expand. utilizing the exist dean natural banks or levees of the river system until nine hundred twenty seven in nineteen twenty seven we had a major flood on the mississippi river where a large number of these levee systems were breached huge sections of louisiana were flooded and thereafter congress passed the nine hundred twenty seven flood control that they'd called for control of the mississippi river and control of the flooding

. nine hundred sixty five hurricane betsy came out every four storm and it flooded lawns parts of new york. from there we started to develop the hurricane levee system so we had a river levee system and now we will ball the and i hurry came protection system there immediately started to interfere with the natural land building capabilities of the in the supreme. plan so i and credibly beneficial in the physical sense they are our number one protection. and we destroyed. katrina to put this all in perspective

was was barely a category three storm at landfall most new orleans but thirty five miles new orleans was on the weak side new orleans than even experience hurricane force winds . and yet we destroyed a major american city and twenty four hours. to . live in the middle of a political. millions around the world have heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival

and rebirth. on. what has received far less attention is how the storms devastation was intertwined with a handful of questionable decisions made in recent years across southern louisiana . in two thousand and five ivor was named director of the louisiana state university hurricane center. louisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina. didn't take me very long to realize that there was one agency to blame and i was the corps of engineers for shoddy shoddy engineering. but after i've republished his official levee report his university contract was

terminated. before. the levees along the mississippi river had schools before we cut out everything with oil and gas taxes and else we used to have very extensive cypress swamps all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles off a swamps ago you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress where. protecting the museum is coastline and its people in the future will require some difficult choices coastal erosion must face and they remain in cypress swamps and

must be protected the mississippi river may have to be diverted again. we cannot say every single community we can build a wall of china across louisiana. i witnessed but that the levees the levees protecting. the coastline is quickly disappearing at a rate of a football field every thirty minutes or about twenty five square miles every year . by two thousand and fifty

it is predicted that another seven hundred square miles will be lost. people think all of us want to think of an awful of mother very for a bike and in six them skeeters and on and on my dad you know. completely from his you probably would have more live around you in that south la basin and the winner of a merger. deal

like twenty three years. i can give oxygen i was in the way to the amazon rain forest and i wanted to get used to the heathenish heat of the frog wally with him he is an amazon so i can to louisiana. that went to the swamp was there in the fall for him once we thought of all. the last year. fellow with a shot. and there went to the amazon. that's a hell of a sin one perform in. more than forty percent of the u.s. coastal wetlands are in southern louisiana claims one of the one this of america he

says. is so much like the. name of another how are a hundred species of feasts and chauffeurs do we have a three hundred species of birds leaving the tough love basin in the many of them and when my great food is woodlands and i wasn't the one to list for the county so they had to cook for everyone with a. beef you destroy decided that serious because your birds would be going to the. pacific a percentage or what proportion of the birds used these a one time of the other in the lobster. compared to other grades you know that it is a little marsh that's awful aves in his many trees some straw just way more by the verse in the everglades way more important for the nation a matter of birth a little it's. you know.

i'm. going to want to watch everything like the reptiles and maybe it's easy to go by the trees of the court so that what it was that all of this covered is actually for us all them almost all to make they'll climb trees and that's the whole. thing. since nineteen twenty one and tens of thousands of miles of canals have been cut through the wetlands to extract oil and natural gas. is manmade oil and gas canals have reshaped southern louisiana as well announce and

contribute to the rapid erosion washing more land out to sea. this used to be a small radio that used to be somewhat regular was done in one out nice and up. for several years then went undercover spying on lumber nodes and following logging trucks. he infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress moche illegally. and. just loading this up assumption is going to focus more on the idea of the folks. i want than they were throwing them away to twenty thousand acres a year between the year two thousand and six the level way to make that one tenth

of all the stuff the force in question was you. know they got serious and c.n.n. got talk about illegal logging in greenwood brazil you know if you go over this happened here in other states and others covering you know and the difference is you go to a country like brazil and they're poor people trying to make a living. there is no law to really use in the real leading roles fall into that because they come across to subscribe to seoul korea. people who go to wal-mart only paulo's and the one about they would have at florida address and they would say made for environmentally cyprus and i actually was one of police uniform close calls forth on the america much so that have us there in those ickle systems and son of a somali the harbors. of. illegal logging operations have stolen tens of thousands of acres of trees from salinas coast. cutting down

the natural barriers that once helped protect the coast from devastating storm surges and and hurricanes. the companies don't like impulse. and do we do fly to the bases every once in a hostile months looking for those kind of violations. and right now we're only good to do than once and flew the load. were really really on the group a stunning meeting that all those on the floor. you've been drilling off the coast of louisiana for a number of years any or all spills to worry about you know that's one of the great unwritten success stories after katrina and rita is awful storms no major spills.

the truth is three days after hurricane katrina and september of two thousand side slick's covering a call from mexico. and they just spill is considered anything over one hundred thousand gallons. after the two thousand and five hurricane season the louisiana department of environmental quality estimated that at least nine million gallons of oil spilled across the state and in the gulf. oil spills have been considered business as usual in the e.c.n. and for a long time. the

father ship coming to. the final itself. if it's likely. to get out. of the gate. yet july twenty third there was a tanker that ran into a wayward arch there the taker pierced the barge basically cut it. boiled was covering the river from think to think for months this isn't an uncommon occurrence for us with the willie gas industry that we have. here's a predominant environmental factor. disagree rivers uses a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for off point south of here so

immediately we shut down those water intakes and started the process of bringing in drinking water for the residents of this area after a couple of days we found a loyal almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here.

that's it faces cars buses. on their nets and they're on their lives on the resource that they harvest. we pray that they will have a safe and abundant harvest here after here. the fishing is everything and fishing is the way of life you know fishing is a source of food fishing is the industry it was only natural that they wouldn't have gone so that's the other work on the resource and command of who do the work and harvest the resource.

we're going to try that. out in the show here. between all the different conflicting interests the art influence the natural gas in there's you know so many conflicting groups. traditionally have the big bowl of fish and then they're more interested in in the fish that are out in the opening of the slaughter fisherman is interested in the bayous the wetlands sprawl they are small craft and function. and that of course the economic factors that have taken their toll. the globalization of the economy the import of practically everything from overseas countries. there's no way that people here in louisiana can compete you know with wages

against such such mega size competition. the cost of running a simple family business and was the family business smart fisherman with his wife and his children so they can compete against these sheinkopf for asians that you know can produce phenomenal amounts pay almost no wages. it's a hard life please take this all in the family life here it's often the lance the size it's a harsh way to make a living you know fighting the elements to seize the waves the wins that's all that we have a blessing of the fleet to invoke god's help to carry through the hard times and the challenging times. it will. bring.

somebody just vote and they approach someone down with the ship i just want us to do. the first our fishing up a straw down on a boat would move follows russia and one thousand seven to seven and i was eighteen years old when on a boat eighteen days from him again me a check a forest in her dolls on the holes rich eighteen years old got a check for eighteen days and therefore they are all as you know what to do with that you know a man owes a lot of money and i stuff but i love those like the challenger tommy left to go out those as a child to see that's more from the net of oh. you know what no handles we just want to make honestly i.

like knowing that one of our comments somebody is going to eat the best protein. that's needed to know which i actually do i don't make a nation to kill people i just make food feel we just moved on a vision i guess is in a balloon so i thought people is in a boat it's a disease. of born here raised in morgan city and when my husband i were married we moved to new iberia. this

is just the kind of people there are in louisiana they live for the life they have here they're very happy living here they've lived here for generations whatever is negative they deal with it may just move slowly. they live off the land they hire they fish and eat the seafood i wouldn't live anywhere else. it's a wonderful place to live it's a wonderful place to raise your family. other than getting shot at. over time my office would get broken into and they would steal the fax machine they would steal. the food out of the kitchen and sheriffs would tell me you know it's just somebody's caressingly well. summer of two thousand and six my husband was working out in the shower and my house is around the corner and he could see in the clinical up and down the road and i was trying to get out

a bunch of things because i was going to go to d.c. and give a presentation on the impacts of the hurricane and you saw them come back and the guy put the gun out the window on the passenger side and she took my off. the shelf stopped before they even came to us the passenger was gone the gun was gone and we couldn't find out who the driver was because it would violate this rights. wealthy british style. that's right in front of the. market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy

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