| Creeks, sloughs, bayous, and swamps, including a large cypress swamp at the base of Crowley's Ridge, ran around the town. |
| Rustic, self-sufficient country dwellers, Cajuns lived along the bayous and swamps of Louisiana for more than 200 years. |
| The rediscovery has galvanized efforts to save the Big Woods of Arkansas, 550,000 acres of bayous, bottomland forests and oxbow lakes. |
| The gates would also make it possible to restore freshwater flows to bayous that have been cut off from the main river. |
| The bayous and marshland of southern Louisiana host one of the largest agglomerations of industry in North America. |
| Settling among the isolated bayous of southern Louisiana, Acadians would become Cajuns. |
