Ha! great photos Melinda! The beavers are still cutting down trees but no one knows what their plans are or how long they'll be there, how interesting!
Ha! great photos Melinda! The beavers are still cutting down trees but no one knows what their plans are or how long they'll be there, how interesting!
I believe that they need a lot of trees to sustain a very big colony. I don't think there's enough wooded area here to feed very many of them for very long. I'm guessing they will choose to move along, but wonder how much damage they will do before they leave. Because of all the flooding that we had all summer long many of the trees along the riverbank we're struggling anyway, so between the flooding and the Beavers I think the landscape will change.
Howdy tonight Melinda! good to see you here. Well, but they are actually helping you because they're opening up your view right?
That remains to be seen! They could just make a mess of trees down all along the river bank!
They are creating a bit of a mess!
Oh wow, are these trees that they have cut down? Well you'll have to hire someone to wrap the trees you want to stay up maybe. In that metal wrap.
That has already been done. There is a photo of one of the wrapped trees in that post that I did for Wednesday's walk. Most of the trees that are growing along the riverbank are less desirable, and are just weedy trees that die off when the water is high, and then new ones sprout up when the water recedes.
Oh well you're way ahead of the game then, good thinking. Did you do that when they first moved in?
Back in November. My neighbor's son was here for Thanksgiving and she had many trees that needed to be protected. Her home is within feet of the edge of the river and most of the trees in her yard were vulnerable. While he was wrapping them he just went ahead and did a couple of mine that needed to be protected because she gets more benefit from them than I do. They are some distance from my house and yard.