The last day of winter at the outlet stream of the beaverbog. We are still mostly ice on the bigger ponds. The streams are flowing strongly. Rain has been a regular weekly event. Above image foreground is the rocky section where the beavers created the primary dam that created the bog about twenty five years ago. The open space in the background was forested before then.
As reported earlier, the beavers have already ramped up operations and begun additional development along the primary input stream to the bog. At left is another example of the work being done. It appears they will be cutting up this trunk into smaller sections.
An examination of the four dams along this stream show no sign of new material or wood yet the number of trees that have been harvested just these recent months is too numerous to count. My search for their den continues.
Last weekend on our patrol around the beaverbog [backwoods Maine] found a number small trees cut down by the beaver population that has been building dams here over the last three years or so. While most of the trees affected appear to be birch, there is a number of different kinds of trees and sizes affected on both sides of the stream.
We noted that the trunks of these trees are nowhere to be found; presumably they have been moved to a dam or their lodge (which I have been unable to locate!). Of course, some of the smaller tree trunks may simply have been eaten.
These trees (and the ones shown above) are located right next to the snowmachine trail at bridge Echo over the stream that provides most of the water into the beaverbog.
We note that the beaverbog itself was created by beavers damming the outlet stream near our house about 25 years ago.
