As some of you know, we live adjacent to a 100+ acre wood which includes a large boggy area which, over the years, has been flooded to varying degrees by beavers.

For decades, the beavers have logged, slogged, assembled, and re-assembled dams, bridges, and discarded wood piles. In all these years, I have failed to identify any place where these beavers would actually have a home. No longer!!!

Here is a den (above) found this past weekend on a little un-traveled section of the 100-acre wood adjacent to the well known beaver bog (now ”pond”). While we have found modest dens in the Far Bog and the Middle Bog during our years, a den near the Beaver Bog has never been seen until now.

Among some other discoveries on our hike was some of the largest beaver tree falls we have ever seen. Some of the trees the beavers have been working on are almost 3 feet in diameter.

We also found a large tree which not only was felled by these lumber jacks but it was reduced to three-foot sections! What the heck are they going to be building now!!!???