Attempts to reclaim the lower swamplands were ineffective.
Recurrent flooding from surrounding swampland led provincial authorities to propose relocating the town.
Some swampland in the lower catchment was drained to open land for agriculture.
Originally, the county was mostly swampland, but more land became available for farming as the marshes were cleared and drained.
Their agility allows them to be used for hunting from swamplands to mountains and some can be used as water dogs.
The city itself is surrounded by farmland; beyond the farmland to the west lies nearly uninhabited swampland.
This was because hunters placed a value on swampland, which because of its unsuitability for agriculture was otherwise regarded as being useless.
The river system, being blackwater throughout its entire length, flows through highly intermittent bottom swampland.
