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Lake Childress
Lake Childress, sometimes Childress Lake, is a lake near Childress, Texas. Description Lake Childress is located 8 miles northwest of Childress, Texas in the Red River Basin. It is a part of the Baylor Creek reservoir which is the pair of Lake Childress and Baylor Lake. Both lakes are owned by the City of Childress. The two lakes have a combined surface area of 650 acres. The lake is prone to drought causing varying water levels. Due to its high conductivity level, it has been subject to Golden algae kills. History In 1923, the reservoir was constructed on a tributary of Baylor Creek. The intended capacity was 4,600 acres. The lake was previously used for water supply in Childress, Texas. Aquatic vegetation Lake Childress has coontail, pondweed, flooded trees, cattails, and milfoil. Fish The species of fish at Lake Childress include white crappie, largemouth bass, and catfish Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of r ...
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Childress, Texas
Childress ( ) (established 1887; incorporated 1890) is a city in Childress County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,905 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Childress County. The city and county were named in honor of George Campbell Childress, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, who was the principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The county and city were incorporated more than four decades after Childress's death. In December 2015, the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' voted Childress ninth among the ten "most conservative" cities in the United States in regard to political contributions. Other West Texas communities in the most conservative lineup are Hereford (No. 1), Monahans (No. 5), and Dalhart in Dallam County in the far northwestern Texas Panhandle (No. 8). Princeton in Collin County north of Dallas ranked No. 2. In contrast, Vashon Island, Washington was named the "most liberal" city in the nation in terms of political donations. ...
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Golden Algae
The Chrysophyceae, usually called chrysophytes, chrysomonads, golden-brown algae or golden algae are a large group of algae, found mostly in freshwater. Golden algae is also commonly used to refer to a single species, ''Prymnesium parvum'', which causes fish kills. The Chrysophyceae should not be confused with the Chrysophyta, which is a more ambiguous taxon. Although "chrysophytes" is the anglicization of "Chrysophyta", it generally refers to the Chrysophyceae. Members Originally they were taken to include all such forms of the diatoms and multicellular brown algae, but since then they have been divided into several different groups (e.g., Haptophyceae, Synurophyceae) based on pigmentation and cell structure. Some heterotrophic flagellates as the bicosoecids and choanoflagellates were sometimes seen as related to golden algae too. They are now usually restricted to a core group of closely related forms, distinguished primarily by the structure of the flagella in motile cells, ...
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White Crappie
The white crappie (''Pomoxis annularis'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two species of crappies. Alternate common names for the species include goldring and silver perch. is named for the fish. The genus name ''Pomoxis'' refers to crappies' sharp operculum, while the species name ''annularis'' means 'having rings', i.e., it has vaguely vertical bars on the body. Description White crappies are morphologically similar to black crappie. They have 5–10 dark vertical bars along their bodies, rather than the randomly scattered spots like the black crappie. The white crappie has a silvery color with green or brown shades along its back, with dark lateral bars along its side, and a white belly. The dorsal fins of the white crappie starts farther back on the body than those of the black crappie. The anal fin is about the same size as the dorsal fin. The white crappie has six dorsal fin spines, whereas the black crappie has seven or eight dorsal fin spines. W ...
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Largemouth Bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but widely introduced elsewhere. It is known by a variety of regional names, such as the widemouth bass, bigmouth bass, black bass, bucketmouth, largies, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, bucketmouth bass, Green trout, gilsdorf bass, Oswego bass, LMB, and southern largemouth and northern largemouth. The largemouth bass is the state fish of Georgia and Mississippi, and the state freshwater fish of Florida and Alabama. Taxonomy The largemouth bass was first formally described as ''Labrus salmoides'' in 1802 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède with the type locality given as the Carolinas. Lacépède based his description on an illustration of a specimen collected by Louis Bosc near Charleston, S ...
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Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraíba of South America, to detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and even to a tiny parasitic species commonly called the candiru, ''Vandellia cirrhosa''. Neither the armour-plated types nor the naked types have scales. Despite their name, not all catfish have prominent barbels or "whiskers". Members of the Siluriformes order are defined by features of the skull and swimbladder. Catfish are of considerable commercial importance; many of the larger species are farmed or fished for food. Many of the smaller species, particularly the genus ''Corydoras'', are important in the aquarium hobby. Many catfish are nocturnal,
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Lakes Of Texas
__NOTOC__ The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas. A *Lake Abilene *Addicks Reservoir *Lake Alan Henry *Alvarado Park Lake *Amistad Reservoir (extends into Coahuila, Mexico) *Lake Amon G. Carter *Lake Anahuac (once known as Turtle Bay) *Aquilla Lake *Lake Arlington (Texas) *Lake Arrowhead (Texas), Lake Arrowhead *Lake Athens (formerly known as Flat Creek Reservoir) *Lake Austin *Averhoff Reservoir B *Lake B. A. Steinhagen *Balmorhea Lake *Lake Bardwell *Lake Bastrop *Baylor Creek Reservoir *Lake Bellwood *Belton Lake *Benbrook Lake *Big Creek Reservoir *Big Lake (Texas), Big Lake *Lake Bob Sandlin *Lake Boehmer *Bonham City Lake *Bonham State Park Lake *Boerne City Lake *Brady Creek Reservoir *Brandy Branch Reservoir *Braunig Lake *Lake Brelsford *Lake Bridgeport (formerly known as Bridgeport Reservoir) *Lake Brownwood *Lake Bryan *Lake Bryson *Lake Buchanan (Texas), Lake Buchanan *Buffalo Creek Reservoir *Buffalo Springs Reservoir C *Caddo La ...
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