Natural History. Stewardship. Sustainablility.
Beaver Flooding
1918 Allandale Farm Fields - As you can see, there is no standing water in the highlighted area before beaver flooding. |
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1981 Beaver Pond - After the farm was abandoned, beavers created a dam at the east end of Tischer Creek which flooded the former farmland and resulted in a large pond. |
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1991 Receeding Beaver Pond - As you can see, after ten years the Beaver Pond has receeded. |
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1995 Developing Wet Meadow - A few years later there is very little open water left and a wet meadow is beginning to take hold in the area. |
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2005 Wet Meadow - By 2005, Tischer Creek still moves through the area, but there is nothing that resembles the Beaver Pond that existed only twenty years before. |
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2008 Wet Meadow - In 2008, beavers constructed a new dam, pond, and lodge in the area. |
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