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  • In East Texas, Residents Take On a Lake-Eating Monster

    07/30/2007 10:46:26 PM PDT · by neverdem · 8 replies · 910+ views
    NY Times ^ | July 30, 2007 | RALPH BLUMENTHAL
    UNCERTAIN, Tex., July 25 — How this one-time steamboat landing on Caddo Lake got its name is, well, uncertain — as uncertain as the fate that now clouds this natural wonder, often called the state’s only honest lake. With more submerged acreage than Minnesota, Texas has just 166 bodies of water commonly considered lakes. All but one of them, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, are artificial reservoirs, most created in the 1950s to fend off drought. Now that one, Caddo Lake, a mystical preserve of centuries-old mossy cypress breaks, teeming fisheries and waterfowl habitats, is under siege...