Pacific Northwest Gardening: signs of spring??? Share them!, 1 by bonehead

bonehead wrote:
Kosk, yes I am on acreage with a small salmon creek and connecting farm pond. We also have fairly constant beaver intrusion and they currently have the creek backed up to severe flooding of our lower area (turning former woodlot and our road out back into wetlands, arghh). I don't usually get the full frog chorus until mid-February, so whomever I'm hearing now must be an advance scout.

This photo was taken last July. We now have standing water from just beyond the small birch tree to the right of the pond, across the creek culvert (where the tractor is), on up to the green grassy section of the road by the cedar. It's awful. Even in this pic you can see how wet it is -- all the straw-looking grass is pretty much under water. The pale trees in the long grass are all water-killed alder, just waiting to blow down. The last time my husband took the tractor back, water came up to its belly. He hasn't attempted in a few months.

Trying to co-exist with beavers is difficult.