We are here today because either we love Jane, or we love someone that loves Jane.
And I suppose that love sums up what Jane was all about.
Over the last few days, our family assembled a list of some of the qualities that might be used to describe Jane.
Perhaps you recognize some of them: Continue reading
Collar, no tags, male, puppy, about 45 pounds, intact ears, very friendly, can sit. If this is your dog, let us know; we will deliver.
Pictures by Gretchen and John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 August 2013.
Day before yesterday I discovered something had been chewing rope in half. Last night we put up some cameras to find out what; no luck. Yesterday while collecting the cameras, I left the truck door open. When I came back I thought our Yellow Dog was in there, but it started growling at me. Moved the seat and hm, you’re not one of ours! Found the rope-chewing culprit, though.
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We like our beaver pond, but the beavers are a bit too ambitious.
Here’s how they operate.
Haemig PD (2012) Ecology of the Beaver. ECOLOGY.INFO 13,
The forest beside the stream also changes after beaver occupation. When beavers cut down trees for food and for building their dams and lodges, they select the species of trees that they prefer, and leave other tree species standing. Consequently, after many years, the forest beside a beaver pond is usually dominated by different tree species than it was before beaver occupation, and in the gaps where the beavers removed trees, bushes and saplings now grow and with them the animal species that live in the early stages of forest regeneration (Barnes and Dibble 1986; Johnston and Naiman 1990;
Pastor and Naiman 1992; Donkor et al. 2000). In addition, when the beaver pond is formed by the dam, water floods and covers the roots of trees that formerly stood along the stream bank. These flooded trees die because the standing water prevents their roots from getting air….
In Wyoming, a survey showed that owners of private lands believed that they benefited from beaver engineering because Continue reading
Nope, Yellow Dog was not impressed by a shopping bag full of lunch from the garden.
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes
County, Georgia, 2013-07-03.
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The pond was too dam high,
and the beavers were girdling trees far out from the usual shore,
so we set sail to pipe the beaver dam.
Dogs waiting for us to get the boat to the deep water:
Lily:
Continue readingSnake in the grass and in the hand:
Yellow Dog caught this snake by the swamp. She set it down when I told her too (I was surprised). When she and Brown Dog went off in the brush, I picked it up to transport it where they wouldn’t get it again. Snake on the skin: Continue reading
