Looks like they are just getting started on that one. Spotted this one below last year that’s a little farther along – you can see by the spillover towards the left how much they’d
elevated the pool behind it. At the creek feeding the northwest corner of Lake Arthur at McConnell’s Mills State Park north of Pittsburgh, PA. Amazing what beavers can accomplish!
There are four more dams upstream of the one I posted, all only raised the level at most 4-5 inches. This is in a swampy area at the north end of Brady’s lake. They keep encroaching southward.
We have similar ones in a swampy area near us. It is/was a Superfund site that is now a nice park, as long as you stay out of the water.
@string said:
We have similar ones in a swampy area near us. It is/was a Superfund site that is now a nice park, as long as you stay out of the water.
That’s the scary stuff! Will this government ever get its excrement together, pay enough $$$ that corrupt congressional people collect under the table, and cleanup the sites so that beavers don’t hide them and have their contaminents feast on innocent paddlers/adventurers…that choose to eat a few trout caught? There’s absolutely noone enforcing the laws these days! Just slapping the wrists of their bar-b-que friends in the burbs…
If you think this is massive, there is a beaver dam in Alberta that you can see from the space station photos…it’s comprised of …can’t remember all the details but about 12,000 acres.
@BigSpencer said:
@string said:
We have similar ones in a swampy area near us. It is/was a Superfund site that is now a nice park, as long as you stay out of the water.That’s the scary stuff! Will this government ever get its excrement together, pay enough $$$ that corrupt congressional people collect under the table, and cleanup the sites so that beavers don’t hide them and have their contaminents feast on innocent paddlers/adventurers…that choose to eat a few trout caught? There’s absolutely noone enforcing the laws these days! Just slapping the wrists of their bar-b-que friends in the burbs…
Ours started in the late 1800s when textiles ruled the area. There were several mills on the river for over 100 years.
A mill built the dam that contains the nature area.
…and certain weeds, all in big bunches seem to do a pretty good job of filtering…