Coastal restoration efforts continue at Bayou Pointe-au-Chien with oyster reef rebuild wgno.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wgno.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It was March 2021, and Sheri Neil was throwing together po’boys for the lunch crowd at her namesake Sheri’s Snack Shack, the only restaurant in the small bayou village of Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.
A coastal Louisiana tribe is creating reefs from discarded oyster shells to help preserve their land and cultural sites, and address sea level rise and erosion caused by climate change.
For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, they’ve expanded that effort.