In 2025, I joined the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana’s Coastal Leadership Institute. As part of their second cohort, we traveled around South Louisiana to learn about the various aspects of coastal erosion and mitigation from an ecological, cultural and economic standpoint.
As part of this program, I offered to capture content and create reels to highlight aspects of each class and help them showcase the value of the program to potential future candidates for the program.
Telling one-minute stories
that make an impact
Les for the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
with Les for
CRCL
Touring the great wall
of louisiana
Welcome to the Great Wall of Louisiana. For our fourth class, the CLI cohort visited the surge barrier that was erected to counter storm surge from the next “100-year storm.” With this wall and the now-decommissioned MR-GO, communities and organizations are exploring how to restore this areas marshlands.
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Visiting the pointe-au-chien
Indian tribe
For our third class, the CRCL CLI cohort went down the bayou to the Terrebone Basin to visit the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe! This tribe has been occupying this land for at least 6,000 years!
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inland erosion:
The Maurepas swamp
For our fifth CRCL CLI class, we visited the Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station in Manchac and learned more about how coastal erosion can even happen somewhere as inland as the Maurepas Swamp.
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