Bois d'arc


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Bois´ d'arc´


1.(Bot.) The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies.
- U. S. Census (1880).
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Walnut was the most common because it was plentiful, but select calls were made of Hedge, better known as Osage Orange or Bois d'Arc, French for archery bow wood; in the vernacular Bodock.
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The Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoir is expected to eventually provide water for 1.7 million people serviced by the North Texas Municipal Water District.
Texas close to gaining first reservoir in 20 years
Another old-fashioned form of fencing, popular is the Ozarks, is a living hedge of bois d'arc (Osage orange).
Fencing for creatures great and small
The bois d'arc, or Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), is native to Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas.
Cherokee adaptation to the landscape of the west and overcoming the loss of culturally significant plants
The landowner had been paid to restore his fence when the construction of the pipeline was completed in 1949 and, in that area of Kansas, bois d'arc wood fence posts have been known to last as long as 75 years.
Observations from 56 years of pipeline corrosion damage excavations
We are focused on recognising cost synergies from the Bois d'Arc integration while drilling and oil service costs equilibrate with lower commodity prices.
Stone Energy Corporation Announces 2008 Fourth Quarter and Annual Results
From south to north, the coverage area reaches from the intersection of State Highway 185 and Bois d'Arc Road to the intersection of U.S.
VERIZON LAUNCHES BROADBAND NETWORK IN VICTORIA, TEXAS
Carter was born March 10, 1914, in Bois D'Arc, Mo., to Ben and Naomi Snyder Carter.
Obituaries
Hunting lands are located near Felsenthal and Bois d'Arc Creek Wildlife Management areas and along the Ouachita River.
Potlatch Corp., Willamette Industries Inc. and Plum Creek Timber Co. are selling 53 properties in Arkansas,Louisiana and East Texas in a sealed-bid auction being conducted by Realty Marketing/Southeast in affiliation with Group One Realty and Five Star Realty brokers
Known also as hedge, hedge apple, bodark (from the French bois d'arc, meaning wood of the bow), and bowwood, the osage-orange's name comes from the Osage Indian tribe, which lived near the tree's home range, and from the orange-like aroma of the ripened fruit.
The Versatile Osage-Orange
Dominant trees on the study area were black oak (Quercus velutina), hickory (Carya sp.), green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), sugarberry (Celtis laevigata), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia), bois d'arc (Maclura pomifera), honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), post oak (Quercus stellata), red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), slippery elm (Ulmus rubra) and persimmon (Diospyros virginiana).
Microhabitat features associated with the song perches of Painted and Indigo Buntings (Passeriformes: Cardinalidae) in northeast Texas
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