11. The interior bottomlands were not developed until after the war. 12. Some prime cropland still exists, primarily near streams and on bottomland . 13. The wildlife management area consists mostly of bottomland hardwood forests. 14. Today, the rivers support intensive irrigated agriculture on the fertile bottomlands . 15. Of the of land, approximately consists of bottomland and upland forest. 16. The eastern arm of the lake is the former Casey Creek bottomland . 17. The forest overstory is a relatively closed stand of mixed bottomland hardwoods. 18. Ninety percent of the Delta bottomlands were frontier and undeveloped. 19. Blacks cleared land, selling timber and developing bottomland to achieve ownership. 20. Other habitat types include of bottomland hardwoods and of young hardwood plantations.
