bayou

WE had powerful good luck; because we got a chance in a stern-wheeler from away North which was bound for one of them bayous or one-horse rivers away down Louisiana way, and so we could go all the way down the Upper Mississippi and all the way down the Lower Mississippi to that farm in Arkansaw without having to change steamboats at St.

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman; tricks which they will have less need to practise in Louisiana bayous. When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.

"And the next day or the next we can sail to the Bayou Brulow," he went on.

As the banks of many of Texas' rivers and bayous crumble and erode, a debate is raging among conservationists: Should they engineer a change or let nature take its course?

To determine whether this is the case, surveys of mussels were performed in Anacoco and Toro bayous, within Vernon and Sabine parishes, respectively (Fig.

This study is designed to evaluate the benthic invertebrates of three Mississippi Gulf Coast bayous, Bayous Casotte, Cumbest, and Heron, that are under the pressures of recreational, industrial and residential activities.

Pe, a seventh-generation resident like many others who live among the bayous of southeastern Louisiana, adds that this project is an important first step, but much more must be done to restore the wetlands.

The species inhabits shallow waters of lowland swamps, oxbow lakes and sluggish backwaters of creeks and bayous almost always in association with aquatic vegetation, submerged logs, and stumps over a detritus and muddy bottom (Burr 1977; Robison & Buchanan 1988).

Mike Tidwell is a travel writer who hitchhiked his way down the bayous of Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico to learn about life among the Cajun fishermen and shrimpers.

Most urban waters have high bacteria levels, but Buffalo and White Oak Bayous on the western side of Houston have the highest average bacterial counts in Texas, more than an order of magnitude higher than water quality standards say is acceptable for swimming.

"In the overflow bottoms, on the other hand, concentrate your search for ancient trees in the cypress-tupelo brakes that can be found along most of the major rivers and bayous. Look for places that are almost always flooded, especially those that are densely stocked with doghair stands of cypress or tupelo.