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Toledo Bend Lake Photo Gallery
Pictures from the whole Toledo Bend Lake Area

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Toledo Bend Gallery

This section is a gallery of pictures taken by Webmaster (Frank Dutton) around the Toledo Bend Lake area. Please check back monthly for new pictures.

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This image is from dpreview.com (excellent place for photo equipment reviews / information). To get the most out of an image, a monitor should be calibrated. On my monitors, I can make out the difference between all 26 bands of this image. At minimum, to get a really good look at images, you should be able to differentiate AT LEAST between A, B, C and X, Y, Z.

Frank Dutton's photos have been used by:

• Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History
• South Toledo Bend State Park - Visitors' Center
• Grand Marais, MN - Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center
• Lake Fort Smith, Arkansas - Visitors' Center
• Kodiak, Alaska - Visitor's Center
• Jordan Lake State Recreation Center, North Carolina
• Newport Beach California Visitors' Center
• SRA Texas Annual Report
• Louisiana Sportsman Magazine
• Boating Life Magazine
• Bird Watchers' Digest
• Thunder Press
• Offshore Frontiers Magazine
• City Social (Baton Rouge) Magazine
• Texas TAKS Study Guide Grade 8 Science
• Shelby Savings Bank - Hemphill, TX
• Adventure Publications - Wildflowers Of The Carolinas - July, 2008
• The Sabine Index Newspaper
• The Sabine County Reporter Newspaper
• The Lakecaster Magazine
• Children's Science Magazine (Singapore/Hong Kong)
• First Baptist Church of Many - Billboard
• Whiteshell Echo (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada))

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Latest additions:

9/7/09 - Wow! The last few days have been really busy with this site and very productive. With continuing help from Chris Nichlos and a LOT of new help from Jim Walker, the bigger part of the unidentified wildflowers have been identified - and a few mis-identified plants corrected. Additionally some new wildflowers have been added along with some spiders and flies. Almost all of the files have also been identified, too. Also got some new Red-tailed Hawk photos on along with some dragonflies & damselflies. MANY THANKS TO CHRIS NICHOLS & JIM WALKER!!!

9/2/09 - I've been able to move a lot of pictures out of the UNIDENTIFIED page to their proper slots with names, thanks to Chris Nichols of Austin who sent me many identifications for plants I had been unable to find. THANKS CHRIS!

6/7/09 - New section in wildflowrrs: Carnivorous Plants - new Dragonflies added, too and some other odds 'n' ends

6/3/09 - We have recently added many new pictures in addition to getting a lot of insects and some wildflowers identified that were previously unidentified - especially in Dragonflies. We also have a really nice new set of pictures of a Mississippi Kite and of a pair as they are mating - from "fly in" to "fly out" - you may like these as they are unusual - Mississippi Kites Mating

Birders:

If you're into bird watching, check out the Toledo Bend Lake Area Birding Checklist - all of the birds you might expect to be able to see in the Toledo Bend Lake area.

Toledo Bend Lake Butterfly Guide

2-part guide to Toledo Bend Lake area butterflies - It's FREE and in full color - CLICK HERE for more info and to download it

Toledo Bend Lake Area Rare & Endangerd Species

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Natural Heritage Program has fact sheets on our rare and endangered species. The full listing is available on their website at: http://wlf.louisiana.gov/experience/naturalheritage/g1andg2elements/

Below are links to those that might be found in the Toledo Bend area:
NOTE: These are all PDF files

Rare Plants

Rare Animals

Natural Communities

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