Heath Hen Meadow Changes

I'm hardly a faithful blogger. The fact I've written nothing for this blog in six months proves that point.

But I've been a pretty steady walker along the marsh despite my lack of blogging. The beaver are the big story on Heath Hen Meadow Brook. They've built up the dam just above and underneath the bridge. They've even built a small lodge 5 feet downstream of the bridge. And all along the marsh edge, upstream of the bridge, the higher water has given them access to young trees and old. A careless eye cast along the water's edge reveals trees down, on their way down soon or at the early stage of turning into beaver breakfast.

The Land Stewardship Committee has been busy with a set of walkway sections to we can walk across the bridge again. For much of the summer, the northern end of the bridge has been underwater and the 50' approaching it has been eithe a stream or a saturated mud puddle. Now, we can move across the bridge and get into the Heath Hen Meadow land proper.

Thank you everyone on the Land Stewardship Committee. Great work and great caring.