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beaver pond
Perhaps you're in the mood for a change of pace?
We went for a walk through a landscape transformed by beavers. It's always been marshy; they have turned it into their own habitat. There are frogs in here, and red-winged blackbirds flying over the reedy parts, and redstarts singing in the skunk-cabbage parts.


We saw a great tree, SO TALL, that will soon be down:

Evidence (pond-facing side):

Some extra gnawing (trail-facing side):

Again, that tree is TALL:

So think of beavers. There was no pond before but there is a pond now.
We went for a walk through a landscape transformed by beavers. It's always been marshy; they have turned it into their own habitat. There are frogs in here, and red-winged blackbirds flying over the reedy parts, and redstarts singing in the skunk-cabbage parts.


We saw a great tree, SO TALL, that will soon be down:

Evidence (pond-facing side):

Some extra gnawing (trail-facing side):

Again, that tree is TALL:

So think of beavers. There was no pond before but there is a pond now.
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(I mean, I suppose we only see the result... maybe they take down lots of irrelevant trees, and since we still end up with a pond, we're impressed?)
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That is a very lovely beaver-formed landscape, thank you.
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They build.
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and their landscaping helps mitigate catastrophic once-in-100-year floods!
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Dorset Wildlife Trust recently re-introduced beavers somewhere in west Dorset, a small scale trial in a secret location. I hope beavers can work the same transformation here!
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Thank you for these placid photographs of new growth and richness out of the demise of what was.
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