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Etymology 1 n. (rare spelling of bosk English) (19th century) Etymology 2
n. (context southern US English) A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
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Housing Units (2000): 8644
Land area (2000): 989.175264 sq. miles (2561.952063 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.456158 sq. miles (34.851287 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1002.631422 sq. miles (2596.803350 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.888946 N, 97.611770 W
Headwords:
Bosque, TX
Bosque County
Bosque County, TX
Wikipedia
A bosque is a gallery forest found along the riparian flood plains of stream and river banks in the southwestern United States. It derives its name from the Spanish word for woodlands.
In the predominantly arid or semi-arid southwestern United States, the bosque is an oasis-like ribbon of green vegetation, often canopied, that only exists near rivers, streams, or other water courses. The most notable bosque is the -long ecosystem along the middle Rio Grande in New Mexico that extends from Santa Fe south past Socorro including the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
The most common trees in the bosque habitat are generally smaller species which rarely exceed , such as mesquite. Larger cottonwood trees are also common in some areas. Because there is only a single canopy layer and because the tree species found in the bosque are generally deciduous, a wide variety of shrubs, grasses, and other understory vegetation is also supported. Desert hackberry, blue palo verde, graythorn (Condalia lycioides), Mexican elder (''Sambucus mexicana ''), " virgin's bower", and " Indian root" all flourish in the bosque. The habitat also supports a large variety of lichens. For a semi-arid region, there is extraordinary biodiversity at the interface of the bosque and surrounding desert ecosystems.
Certain subsets of vegetative association are defined within the Kuchler scheme, including the Mesquite Bosque.
Bosque is a scientific journal published by the Forestry Faculty of the Southern University of Chile. It publishes articles on a wide range of forestry-related topics, primarily on issues that are relevant to Chile, Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere. The published articles include peer-reviewed scientific research papers, items of current interest and opinion pieces. Bosque's first issue was published in 1975 and the journal was issued yearly until 1985. From 1985 to 2003 it was issued twice a year and from 2003 on three times a year. The topics covered in Bosque are management and production of forestry resources, wood science and technology, silviculture, forest ecology, natural resources conservation, and rural development associated with forest ecosystems. The journal publishes research articles, notes and opinions, both in Spanish and English. Bosque was included in the Science Citation Index Expanded in 2009. The journal is also indexed in The Zoological Record.
A bosque is a forested area that forms on the flood plains of a river or stream; typically in the southwestern United States, from a Spanish word for woodlands.
Bosque may also refer to:
- Bosque (surname)
- Bosque River, a river in Texas, U.S.
- Bosque County, Texas
- Bosque, a scientific forestry journal published by the Southern University of Chile
- Bosque, Valencia County, New Mexico, U.S.
- Bosque School, a preparatory school in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, U.S.
- Bosques de las Lomas, a section of Mexico (City), D.F., United Mexican States
Usage examples of "bosque".
Enriquez, a lackey named Rubio, the two Aragonese - Mesa and Insausti - and another whose name was Bosque.
Hunger People used to be a long time ago before the army moved them to Bosque Redondo.
Long Walk and imprisonment at the Bosque Redondo, instructing him always with such stories.
En el bosque hay lobos, pero los lobos no me arredran y mi hacha nunca me fue infiel.
Lo cierto es que debieron proceder entre justificadas demoras y que alguno de sus concilios tuvo lugar, no en la cumbre difícil de una montaña, sino en una capilla en un bosque, mediocre pabellón de madera blanca, sin otro adorno que la caja rectangular que contiene un espejo.
Entonces pudo relajarse y descansar al fin de su terrible carrera a través de los bosques, y calentar sus entumecidos miembros.
Al finalizar el día, se encontraban caminando por una tierra de selvas lujuriosas y bosques pantanosos que bordeaban el camino con densas masas de color verde oscuro salpicadas de árboles en flor de colores brillantes.
El suelo se estremeció bajo el fragor de miles de truenos, la roca fundida surgió de las entrañas de la tierra, se hundieron las montañas y se incendiaron los bosques.
Como casi todos los habitantes de las llanuras, sentía una desconfianza instintiva por los bosques espesos.
No tenía ningún recuerdo de la larga marcha a través de los bosques y las llanuras después de que los guras abandonaran la arruinada ciudad de Yugga.
There were trails and bicycle paths that paralleled the river here, and access to the bosque and the Rio Grande.