One of the best assets this city has is our system of bayous.
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The bayous and open gulf have been actively fished since the French and Spanish arrived nearly 500 years ago.
Amid the bayous and marshes near the Gulf of Mexico, trawling for shrimp has been a way of life for generations.
Pyle then visits Milton Cambre, an oil-rigger-turned-conservationist who has worked for the past 30 years to bring back the bayous of his childhood.
Because of the topography of the city, any significant projects to improve drainage will involve improving how water flows into and through the bayous.
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We forged through prairies, badlands, bayous, followed coastlines and rivers.
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Mr. GIBERTO: It's going to go in this bayou on the other side, which goes out eventually to the bay and the Gulf eventually through all kind of little bayous.
And if your inland waters are contaminated -- if the bays and bayous are contaminated -- it could be devastating, changing the way of life down here for years to come.
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He's a one-time staff writer for Rolling Stone and author of an eclectic body of work including a biography of Nike's Phil Knight, a history of Sears, and articles about fishing for catfish on Louisiana's bayous, logrolling and coondog racing.
Its commercials (like the video above) are filled with heart-tugging images: beaches and bayous, the arches of Utah, a fin-tailed convertible cruising a neon-lit street, a girl running through a field of goldenrod, a New Orleans brass band and a biker heading toward the Golden Gate.
On the distant Kemah bridge, where the lake merged into Galveston Bay, a procession of cars glinted in the sun, and a smallish flock of pink spoonbills meandered in from the opposite shore, heading past the Hilton toward the marshy channels and bayous beyond Bay Area Boulevard.
The raindrops blown a couple of miles west of our ranch would land in creeks that percolated through the Columbia River system into the Pacific, whereas the water in Feely Creek, our creek, was blessed with the task of traveling a thousand miles more, all the way down to the bayous of Louisiana before spilling through the loamy delta into the Gulf of Mexico.
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