Join Tim Male, vice president of conservation policy at Defenders of Wildlife, on his investigation to see what remains of response and recovery efforts down on the oil-polluted Gulf coast.

In Part One of a video series, Tim grabs a shovel and gets his hands dirty in search of toxic oil that has eluded any cleanup process outside Grand Isle, La. The findings are not encouraging.

Stay tuned for more installments of Tim’s firsthand account of the continuing oil disaster.