Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Beavers: love 'em and hate 'em




Just past Mora to the west, is the little community of Cleveland. A few miles up the Rio la Casa canyon in Cleveland, some friends of mine are building a new, uniquely shaped home [more on that later]. The Rio la Casa river is running right through their property on it's way down the mountain. There is still plenty of water in it even in this time of dryness.

So the other day, I was up there to take pictures of the progress on their new home. Jim is building it himself. Lititia and I walked up the river to the beaver dam that is changing the flow channels of the river. To get there we had to cross a bridge of trees.

Beavers have been chewing the Aspens down for their dam and home. It's sad to see these beautiful trees, some quite large, chewed off at the bottom and felled. It's nature's way but sad to see.

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