Fox news just reported from Elmer's Island

you special training/equipment etc to be there

they dont want to have law suits from people getting sick cause they werent properly trained/equipped

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by what authority were they forbidding people to go on the island?

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Is it still private land?

From what I understand, it was privately owned for many years and, after Katrina, it was very badly eroded and eventually closed down. Last year the person who owned it decided to sell it to the state and last summer, for the first time, Elmer’s was opened to the public

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they dont want to have law suits from people getting sick cause they werent properly trained/equipped

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This to some degree but they also don't want even more bad publicity coming out because of dolphins and other wildlife being washed up on shore covered in oil.