isle de jean charles has always been a erful place to live. the island didn't actually open up about the early fifties when oub road wlt. it the morning and see armadillo in the yard or opossum or au raccoon, yow, crossing the yard or whatever, whatnot. all that has changed because, with a lot of it just being water now, the trees have died offwhat you're seeing is actually just a skeleton of what it used to be, you know? albert p. naquin: to me, it means almost, i guess you can say, like a family member having cancer, you know? it's being eaten away, you know, where it's just a little bit by little bitheetting destroyed. now, t only thing is, the piece of land is lasting longer than the human body can. the one right here is an oil' field canal. th's one that passes here. there's one that passes a bit further, the back, so you're looking at water or saltwater intrusion g from the pipeline canals, and they destroyed the vegetation that we used to have... but, you know, most of the people work for the oil compani that's putting food and paying t