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Lake Ouachita features one of the largest crystal veins in the world. Vegetation covers 10% of the lake. Lake Ouachita's vegetation is being addressed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and the Lake Ouachita Association to control the hydrilla and Eurasian watermilfoil. The goal of the project is to ...
The lake sturgeon is near the southern end of its range in Arkansas, more commonly found in the Upper Midwest. [86] Pallid and shovelnose sturgeon live in large, turbid rivers of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain , including the lower Arkansas, Mississippi, and lower White rivers downstream of impoundments.
The Ouachita River begins in the Ouachita Mountains near Mena, Arkansas. It flows east into Lake Ouachita, a reservoir created by Blakely Mountain Dam. The North Fork and South Fork of the Ouachita flow into Lake Ouachita to join the main stream. Portions of the river in this region flow through the Ouachita National Forest.
Arkansas: Lake Ouachita Pronounced "Wash-ah-taw," this human-made lake boasts more than 1,000 miles of shoreline. Residential development doesn't exist, except for a few marina projects.
Lake Hamilton is a 7,200-acre (2,900 ha) reservoir near Lake Hamilton, Arkansas and Hot Springs, Arkansas, located on the Ouachita River. It was named after Hamilton Moses, who later became president and chairman of the board for Arkansas Power and Light.
Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of Arkansas’s lakes, but not all. A lake is a terrain feature (or physical feature ), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin (another type of landform or terrain feature; that is not global).
Percina brucethompsoni, the Ouachita darter, [1] is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to the Ouachita River system in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. [1]
Lampsilis powellii is a rare species of freshwater mussel known by the common name Arkansas fatmucket. It is endemic to Arkansas in the United States, where it occurs in the Ouachita, Saline, and Caddo River systems. [2] It is one of two mussels endemic to Arksansas, the other being speckled pocketbook (Lampsilis streckeri). [3]