I was walking by North Pond tonight and I noticed a few things. The new beaver lodge has a hole in the ice poked right by it. I took the best picture I could with my cellphone. It's a good sign that the beaver(s) are still beavering around! I walked by the old lodge and there, theres no hole in the ice, and the lodge looks kinda deflated. I would assume that that old lodge is now in a compost stage - cool! I took a closer look at the many living trees around the pond that are wrapped in chain-link fence, to protect from beaver action: I didn't spot any willow trees that were wrapped - willow trees actually grow more when beavers gnaw on their living bark. It looks like the conservation council decided to work WITH the beaver, and not against it! Yay!
