Big Sandy Creek (Village Creek Tributary)
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Big Sandy Creek is a stream in
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, United States. It rises in Polk County before flowing approximately southeast into Hardin County where it merges with Kimball Creek, forming Village Creek. Long sections of the creek pass through the
Big Thicket National Preserve The Big Thicket is the name given to a somewhat imprecise region of a heavily forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States. This area represents a portion of the mixed pine-hardwood forests or " Piney Woods" of the Southeast US. The Nat ...
. The Big Sandy Creek unit is named after the stream. The creek also passes through the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation east of Livingston.


Ecology and wildlife

Bottomland hardwood forests and beech-magnolia-loblolly slope forests can be found in the stream's floodplain, while pine savannas occupy the adjacent uplands. Common tree species seen in the bottomlands include sweetgum (''
Liquidambar styraciflua ''Liquidambar styraciflua'', commonly known as the American sweetgum among other names, is a deciduous tree in the genus ''Liquidambar'' native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central A ...
''), swamp chestnut oak (''
Quercus michauxii ''Quercus michauxii'', the swamp chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section ''Quercus'' section ''Quercus'' in the beech family. It is native to bottomlands and wetlands in the southeastern and midwestern United States, in coastal ...
''), hornbeam (''
Carpinus caroliniana ''Carpinus caroliniana'', the American hornbeam, is a small hardwood understory tree in the genus ''Carpinus''. American hornbeam is also known as blue-beech, ironwood, musclewood and muscle beech. It is native to eastern North America, from Mi ...
''), Hollies ('' Ilex sp.''), and bald cypress (''
Taxodium distichum ''Taxodium distichum'' (baldcypress, bald-cypress, bald cypress, swamp cypress; ; ''cipre'' in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States. Hardy and tough, this tree adapts to a ...
''). Outside of the national preserve, the Alabama-Coushatta people manage and protect longleaf pine ecosystems on their land. Prescribed fire and reforestation efforts protect greater than of forest dominated by Longleaf Pine ( ''Pinus palustris''), an important cultural symbol used in basket weaving.


See also

*
List of rivers of Texas The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers ...
* Village Creek *
Big Thicket The Big Thicket is the name given to a somewhat imprecise region of a heavily forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States. This area represents a portion of the mixed pine-hardwood forests or " Piney Woods" of the Southeast US. The Nat ...


References

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USGS Geographic Names Information Service
*USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Texas (1974) Rivers of Texas Geography of Texas Rivers of Hardin County, Texas Rivers of Polk County, Texas {{Texas-river-stub