Great Game Paradise: A History of Vermilion Corporation, Hardcover/Theriot Jason

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Description Great Game Paradise is an in-depth history of a vast, bountiful marshland under private land management during a century of enormous change along Louisiana's now threatened coast. As stewards of a 125, 000-acre tract of prime marsh habitat, Vermilion Corporation and its predecessors have since the 1920s perpetuated the sport of duck hunting through a relentless pursuit of land conservation, sustainable development, and environmental restoration. As one of the largest privately managed wetlands in the state, this story represents a microcosm of the history of the Louisiana Gulf Coast " "its resources, its culture, and its lure and its peril.