The Beauty of Sloughs

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About The Beauty of Sloughs

This is a group to celebrate that bit of wetland with the inelegant name. A slough in my neck of the woods (Saskatchewan, Canada) is is a raucous cacophony of crazy ducks, coots, and teals (you should hear them during mating season!!!), slimy reeds, sometimes stinky mud (in late summer) and a plethora of winged insects...not to mention the blackbirds that will gang up on you and yell at you at a moments notice. It's a rough and ready prairie wetland, taking hold where it can, looking unassuming from a distance, but alive with raw nature. And it can be really beautiful!

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As you can see below, sloughs are different things in different regions. Let's see your version of a slough...or lots of versions. All are welcome to join and post slough pictures.

Slough (wetland) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term slough (in the UK, pronounced to rhyme with cow; In the US, pronounced "slew") has several meanings related to wetland or aquatic features that seem to derive from local experience. For example:

-In the UK, a slough is a muddy or marshy area (for example see the probable derivation of Slough in Berkshire and other place names called Slough).
-In eastern and southeastern United States, a slough is a type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway. It is similar to a bayou with trees being present (that is, a swamp), and unlike a bog or marsh that lacks trees. It can also refer to the area of deeper water between a sandbar and a beach or between two sandbars.
-In the western U.S., a slough is a secondary channel of a river delta or a narrow channel in a shallow salt-water marsh, usually flushed by the tide. While this is in essence the same application of the term as used in the eastern U.S., a singular difference is that there exist no native trees in the west that would grow out into the waterway to form a swamp.
-In the northern Great Plains of the U.S. and Canada, a slough is a pond (often alkaline) usually the result of glaciation (see kettle (geology)); also called a pothole, whence prairie pothole region to describe the area where these sloughs are abundant.

"Slough (wetland)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 26 Oct 2006, 20:16 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 4 Nov 2006 .

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