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Beaver Ponds, Yellow Dog, Gretchen and her Sycamore 2021-02-20

It’s good to get a little exercise.

Log, Fungus, Yellow Dog, Sycamore

Gretchen likes heaving logs under the red maples.

Gretchen and her log

Red maple and beaver creek

Beaver Pond

Birds and dogs.

Gretchen and a beaver pond

Wide beaver pond

Fungus

We could get it down with a ladder.

Gretchen and the lion’s mane

But we left it there to grow again.

This moss grows all the time.

Old stob; might be catface

Woods

In her habitat.

Gretchen in the woods with vines

Yellow Woods Dog

Yellow Dog knows all the woods paths.

Upper Pond

This is also a beaver pond now, only larger than the others.

How about a boardwalk right through here?

Gretchen at the pond edge

Yellow Pond Dog

Dogs like mud.

Yellow Dog in the pond

Yes, that’s me, Yellow Dog

Sycamore

That tree was knee-high when we transplanted it.

Gretchen and her Sycamore

She likes that tree

-jsq

Dogs, creek, beaver pond 2016-11-05

Yellow Dog and Brown Dog convinced Gretchen Quarterman to walk a log across a beaver pond.

Here are a couple of videos and there are more pictures below. Continue reading →

What happens when you step in the mud @ Okra Paradise Farms 2012-07-22

Gretchen on the beaver dam:

Gretchen on the beaver dam
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 July 2012.

Gretchen and her footprint:

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Lowered Beaver Pond

Did the great beaver dam pipe experiment succeed?

Why yes, yes it did. You can see one of the pipes underneath the second log. And the water in the beaver pond is clearly lower.

Maybe the beavers won’t gnaw down as many trees.

Here’s where the water goes: Continue reading →