Posted on 08/22/2010 5:58:11 PM PDT by Scythian
Swamp People on History Channel
Sprawling over a million-acre swath of southern Louisiana, the Atchafalaya River Basin is the largest swamp in the United States and one of the country's most ecologically varied regions. Its wetlands, bayous and marshes are home to 300 species of birds, 90 species of fish and shellfish and 54 species of reptiles and amphibians, including the great American alligator. It owes much of its haunting and mysterious beauty to the towering, moss-draped bald cypress trees that thrive in its swamp waters.
For hundreds of years, the Basin's human dwellersfrom the Native Americans who harvested its timber to the present-day Cajuns who hunt alligators in its murky depthshave subsisted on its many bountiful resources. In the second half of the 18th century, the region became a refuge for several thousand French colonists who had been expelled from Acadie, part of present-day Nova Scotia, for refusing to swear allegiance to the British crown and church. Known as the Acadians, the settlers adapted their way of life to the changeable nature of the Basin's wetland environment, where water levels fluctuate depending on the season, by favoring houseboats and campsites to more permanent homes. Many began growing sugarcane and other crops in the fertile bayou soil, while others made a living as loggers, hunters, trappers or fishermen.
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I know...and to make it worse they caught it on camera and then put it on tv hee hee hee. I would die!
People make fun of our accent. They assume we’re stupid, ignorant, uneducated.
The fact is, we’re just regular folks and to misjudge us on that alone will rob you of a good friendship.
You sound like good people yarddog.
Yes, faster.
I don’t think I’ve ever fully understood anything my father in law ever said.
LOL !!!!
Have you ever had a fine plate of nutria?
Yum!
I always laugh at people that use stupid, ignorant and uneducated....drop a couple of college professors in that swamp and find out who’s ignorant and stupid.....and uneducated....and wont come out alive....It won’t be those people that live there.... ignorance and uneducated is relative..
No but my kids had one as a pet.
His name was Jeffy. My vet at the time also had one.
That’s beautiful.
Sing it sista. :)
I may have to catch one of the babies and see if my granddaughters want a new pet. My son and DIL would kill me dead ... DEAD I tell ya.
LOL !!!
I can’t do it. I just can’t eat one.
Thanks for the heads up. I just programmed the DVR for the re-play.
Stop it! I’m starving! ;)
Why are some red and others dark red?
The photos are before cooking and after cooking, which also means live and dead.
You should try to catch this on repeat if you missed it!
Like Pirates Of The Caribbean.
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