Elijah Verdin – Garde Voir Ci

Thibodaux, Louisiana

Elijah Verdin

Hometown

Theriot, Louisiana

Generation

Gen Z

Does land loss affect you?

I’m not particularly sure how land loss affects me, but I have noticed a lot of changes due to land loss within the community around me.

What are you doing about land loss?

More specifically, I don’t have any idea as to how people could help out as much, besides the standard placing rocks to help with the erosion, because growing up I had to witness a lot of people making levees, so they would take parts of the land within several areas of open terrain, and make lakes.

Are you planning to stay in Louisiana or leave? DOes it have anything to do with land loss?

Not necessarily because of land loss. I would like to leave Louisiana, more so find better prospects. Just more so, the area is more centered around shrimping and fishing, more intercoastal. It would be better to find better prospects up north or outside of Louisiana.