A Wetland BiographyLouisiana's Chenier Plain is a 2,200 square mile region of marshes and oak covered ridges (cheniers) that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from Sabine Lake to Vermilion Bay. Its inhabitants, some 6,000 people of Cajun and other ancestries, retain strong economic and cultural ties to the land and its teeming wildlife. They call it paradise but it is a vulnerable paradise. In this multifaceted study, Gay Gomez explores the interaction of the land,