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• Arctic Village is an assembly of 40-odd spruce-log cabins that overlook the serpentine bends, oxbows, and channels of the East Fork.
• Mine were caught in oxbow lakes and meander scars in southwest Alabama. Has anyone ever caught a bowfin or a snakehead? if so where and how big?
• In a familiar oxbow lake, there were gallinules and egrets, even a couple of brightly colored wood ducks and five blue-winged teal.
• Established in 1992, the 21-kilometer-long oxbow lake was one of three reserves set aside for the translocation of the baiji into a seminatural setting, protected from fishermen, factories, fertilizers, and river traffic.11 When a Billion Chinese Jump
• In essence, the stream follows a lower, more confined route, whilst a series of meandering high-level oxbows provide convenient bypasses.
• The Chicago Tribune called the oxbow an “outrage” perpetrated by “a set of unprincipled swindlers” intent on “building the road at the largest possible expense to the Government and the least possible expense to themselves.” Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
• The mighty Rufiji River is the lifeblood of the reserve and its numerous tributaries and oxbow lakes are ideal for boat safaris.
• To venture into the almost trackless south of the Rufiji River, to the network of tributaries and oxbow lakes, is truly wild.
• The rediscovery has galvanized efforts to save the Big Woods of Arkansas, 550,000 acres of bayous, bottomland forests and oxbow lakes.
• Here the river is fabulous, clear and convoluted, with ponds jammed with yellow flag irises where there are springs or oxbows.