The bantam sunfish typically inhabits sloughs, oxbows, ponds, backwaters, lakes, and swamps. It is characterized by low, wet oak and hickory forest with oxbows and sloughs. Lower sections widen into meandering oxbows at sections within view of Cape Horn. PCB-containing solid material was widely used as fill, including oxbows of the Housatonic River. There are about 400 lakes and oxbows. An example of an entirely artificial waterway with oxbows is the Oxford Canal in England. The landscape is characterised by oxbows, potholes, copses and rows of bushes. The Red Lake River flows through the city and makes several twists and turns (oxbows). Former filled oxbows are also polluted. The stretch from Necedah to Castle Rock Lake has numerous oxbows. Franklin Graves fashioned 14 pairs of snowshoes out of oxbows and hide. North Thompson Oxbows East Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.