Guichard flicked the reins, and the carriage started off, turning away from the dock, passing the warehouses and rattling down the long dusty-white road that led across the bottomland fields to the bluff.
Raoul liked this hillside rising out of the bluffs, where Pierre's wife, Marie-Blanche, lay overlooking the bottomland and the river.
The road down the bluff from the town to the bottomland was empty.
Some were built on the bottomland itself, in spite of the danger of flooding.
North and south from the base of the bluff stretched miles of bottomland along the Mississippi River.
Cooper had brought his family to Victor from some place in Indiana three years ago, buying a choice piece of bottomland from Pierre.
This is an uncommon summer resident in eastern Kansas, in riparian and bottomland timber.
This rare summer resident in northeastern Kansas occurs in deciduous forest and bottomland timber.
Just such a change of channels apparently created the bench of bottomland where Rio Grande Village lies today.
Farmers cleared the bottomland to plant cotton and grains, cut down the lanceleaf cottonwoods for roofbeams, dredged ponds and ditches, and enclosed springs.
In the bottomland fields there are groves and scattered trees of medium to large size.
In some parts of the bottomland and lower slopes it is abundant also, but there are scarcely any on the upper dry rocky slopes that are the preferred habitat of chestnut oak.
The bottomland fallow fields, which had the fewest tree seedlings, were dominated by a rank growth of giant ragweed and sunflower, often as much as ten feet tall, effectively shutting most of the light from the tree seedlings.
Illustration: PLATE 8 Large American elm at edge of bottomland field in west part of the Reservation.
One of the earliest changes was the destruction of the bottomland forest.
Nevertheless, it might be expected that under original conditions these bottomland areas supported forests, as the soil is deep and rich with abundant moisture.
The bottomland areas of the Reservation are mainly grassland and no old stumps remain to indicate that trees were formerly present.
Individual trees deviate widely from the average for their species, and those in rich bottomland soil grow more rapidly than those in shallow soil of hilltops or those on rocky slopes.
One of these was the area of bottomland pastures and formerly cultivated fields where the Reservation headquarters are located, a block of 39 acres bounded on three sides by woodland, and on the fourth by cultivated farm land.
In spring also racers not yet back on their summer ranges are often seen either along the hilltop ledges, or moving downhill through woods toward bottomland meadows.
It is scarce or absent in bottomlandforest that is subject to flooding and requires a forest with openings in the leaf canopy so that sunshine patches for basking are available.
I doubt that they ever have been numerous in the bottomland woods; lack of rocks for shelter, and periodic flooding are unfavorable factors.
At the present time the bottomland forest has been almost completely destroyed, as it grew on the most fertile and potentially productive soil, and has been replaced by cultivated crops.
This is one of the few places in Kansas where a remnant of the original bottomland forest remains.
The new upland forest provides a habitat different in many respects from the original bottomland forest.
As compared with wooded bottomland of larger stream courses in Douglas County and those counties adjoining it, the Reservation area probably supports a relatively low population density of opossums.
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