| The rediscovery has galvanized efforts to save the Big Woods of Arkansas, 550,000 acres of bayous, bottomland forests and oxbow lakes. |
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| But they work fine for most situations, and most species, in East Texas' sluggish rivers, bayous, oxbows and sloughs, too. |
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| The gates would also make it possible to restore freshwater flows to bayous that have been cut off from the main river. |
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| He was fully backed by his sister, who was well-known in the bayous as a little hellion who always got her way. |
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| Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax. |
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| Altogether, including its associated maze of bayous and cypress swamps, the lake covers fifty square miles. |
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| All water in Texas rivers, streams, bayous, reservoirs and other waterways is considered public water and available for legal use by anyone. |
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| From 1862 through 1865 he served as a paymaster on a Union navy gunboat that traversed the bayous and rivers of southern Louisiana. |
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| The bayous and marshland of southern Louisiana host one of the largest agglomerations of industry in North America. |
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| Conversely, the back lakes, sloughs and bayous are reasonably protected, almost certain to hold pockets of calm, clear water. |
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| Settling among the isolated bayous of southern Louisiana, Acadians would become Cajuns. |
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| Creeks, sloughs, bayous, and swamps, including a large cypress swamp at the base of Crowley's Ridge, ran around the town. |
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| Rustic, self-sufficient country dwellers, Cajuns lived along the bayous and swamps of Louisiana for more than 200 years. |
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| Dozens of wide-eyed fishermen have called to share stories of giant catfish or gar taken from local bayous, golf-course ponds and neighborhood lakes. |
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| This web-footed rodent living in the bayous and backwoods of Louisiana has become a kind of unofficial state animal, an anointed nuisance with resident status. |
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| But the terrain is difficult, threaded with bayous and creeks, frequently flooded, and overridden with dense foliage and impenetrable undergrowth. |
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| Redfish, especially, stay in the marshes and bayous all year. |
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| Although some Cajuns stayed on the rivers and bayous or in the swamps, many others headed west to the prairies where they settled not in lines but in small, dispersed coves. |
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| Still, it thrills me that friends of mine are there as we speak, slogging around in the bayous, waiting, listening silently behind veils of camouflage. |
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| The fugitive slaves, called maroons, could easily hide in the backcountry of the bayous and survive in small settlements. |
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| They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries. |
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| It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down. |
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| The Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System provides a degree of protection for 51 rivers, streams and bayous in the state. |
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| Adopt-a-Block locations, where Halls and Greens bayous merge, include the streets of Talton, Chatwood, Homewood, Woodlyn, Laura Koppe and Oak Knoll. |
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| Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years. |
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| There are no straight lines in nature, so the runwaylike precision of the canals is startling to the eye, wildly incongruous amid the natural curves of the bayous and lakes. |
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| Louis, he worked from his sketches, capturing the thick growth of vegetation of cypress-lined bayous with fallen trees, hanging vines, and weathered cypress knees. |
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| The unique geography of the region, with the many bayous, marshes and inlets, can result in water damage across a wide area from major hurricanes. |
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