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This picture of the Nowitna River in Alaska shows two oxbow lakes – a short one at the bottom of the picture and a longer, more curved one at the middle-right. The picture also shows that a third oxbow lake is probably in the making: the isthmus or bank in the centre of the most prominent meander is very narrow – much narrower than the width of the river; eventually, the two sections of ...
Horseshoe Lake is a 2,007 acres (812 ha) natural oxbow lake in Alexander County, Illinois. [1] It is the site of Illinois's Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, a state park 10,645 acres (43 km 2) in size. It has a 20 miles (32 km) shoreline and a depth of 4 ft (1.2 m), with a maximum depth of 5–6 feet (1.5–1.8 m).
The Nature Conservancy considers the preserve's Laurel Oxbow Lake the largest naturally occurring freshwater lake in the state. [7] Also adjacent to Russett, along its southwestern borders, is an undisturbed 78-acre (320,000 m 2 ) land parcel owned by the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.
Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge was formed by three land transfers from the U.S. Army's Fort Devens military installation, and a recent purchase of private land in Harvard. Two of the transfers from the Army (May 1974 and February 1988) formed the original 711-acre (2.88 km 2 ) portion of the Refuge located south of Massachusetts Route 2 .
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The park was first purchased in 1964 for flood control, but the river was straightened in 1975 forming the oxbow. [1] It was dedicated to George W. Carlson, a 32-year member of the Hammond City Council who had played a key role in the park's formation, [2] on October 7, 1998.
May 20—It was a celebration delayed Wednesday as shovelfuls of ceremonial dirt were tossed near the site of what will be the new Oxbow Park Nature Center. Construction of the project, which will ...
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