All of last summer was spent waiting for a contractor to do the wetland restoration. At every contact his message was "I'll be there in two weeks." He never came. A different contractor was engaged last fall and his crew came as soon as the snow had gone. Now, two days of work by a crew of two, all the work is completed. It would have been nice to capture the snow melt this spring but that was not to be.
Last done was the repair of the dam tunneled by muskrats and subsequently washed out. There is water flowing into that pond from a neighbor's land which has been tiled. That tile extends fifty feet onto my land and is flowing. The fifty feet is to avoid the tile ending at my fence line which would have made the ground too wet for me to traverse. I'm keen to see how much that pond raises in the next days. The area that is flooded is quite expansive, several acres, so the water in it will rise slowly. Last fall it was dry with the exception of an old dugout. When wetlands dry down that allows vegetation to emerge that is beneficial to wildlife.
The state wildlife biologist seeded the fresh soil of the restoration projects with 'brood cover'. That is a mixture of plants that provide food for young, wild bird broods. That, too, will be interesting to observe.
Takk for alt,
Al
"Playing in the dirt" but don't call it 'dirt' because it is 'soil.'
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