Here again is the watershed finger that I’ve gotten mostly restored barring a few more H&S tweaks……This is about 300 yards “downstream” from the first set of pics……The fairly straight line of trees in the back is where it starts forming the first parts of a gulley or ditch…..You can see the major difference in understory vegetation growth that comes from managing this watershed finger in a different manner. What’s not so easy to see is the impact it has on ground water retention……

Another thing that probably goes unnoticed is how the massive amounts of silt that have moved through these two watershed fingers over the years has silted in the beaver swamp that it flows into and now beavers no longer inhabit that area like they did when I first moved here…….which has also virtually eliminated the wood ducks that use to fly in……..”See” all the variables………the forest and the trees as they say.