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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2022-05-25 04:46 pm

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.

pond

pond

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

another view of the tree being gnawed

Evidence (pond-facing side):

beaver gnaw

Some extra gnawing (trail-facing side):

bites on the other side

Again, that tree is TALL:

tree being gnawed

So think of beavers. There was no pond before but there is a pond now.
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[personal profile] yamamanama 2022-05-26 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
They're one of three mammals that actively change the environment to suit their needs (the others are the elephant and the human)
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[personal profile] yamamanama 2022-05-27 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember the specifics.