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  • Photographs by Annie Schlechter for The Wall Street Journal DOLPHIN CHENIERS | Formerly accustomed to grander digs, massive bronze cheniers retain their dignity re-purposed as reading lamps at the author's modest "Bee Cottage" hearth.

    Decorating With Mama's Things Frances Schultz 2011

  • The cheniers, or narrow ridges paralleling the shoreline, rise to about five feet in elevation but occupy only about three percent of the region.

    Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

  • "It is our focus to plant cheniers," Thibodeaux said.

    theadvertiser.com - 2009

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