August 12th, 2009 | Photo Galleries, Wildlife, animal, beaver, building, Catskills, cute, dam, nature, New York, wild
This hardworking beaver didn’t notice us quietly fishing as he worked furiously on his dam. According to wikipedia:
The North American beaver population was once more than 60 million, but as of 1988 was 6–12 million. This population decline is due to extensive hunting for fur, for glands used as medicine and perfume, and because their harvesting of trees and flooding of waterways may interfere with other land uses.
A pretty sad situation indeed. Beavers are really clever in the methods they use to build their homes which are the dams. I have heard that they are the animal after humankind that is said to alter their environment the most drastically.
June 6th, 2009
As the sun was setting, mist rose up from the river and soon we were paddling through mysterious shadows, the moon rose full and shiny, as we came to the end of our trip we passed several fly-fishermen, up to their thighs in the cold clean river, mist rising up around them as they gracefully swung a ...
June 4th, 2009
Yarrow, Vetch, Ox-eye Daisy, Plantain, Milkweed, Thistle, Joe Pie Weed, Indian Pipe, Bluet, Rose and many more potent and helpful herbs abound in the alpine meadows of the famous pristine Catskills of New York.
Having the opportunity to get to know these friendly herbs in this wild environment ha ...
November 12th, 2007
Continued from here.
We went on a trip to Cleveland in September, just when the first cold and misty weather-change hit the Catskills. The deer, worried winter was coming early, and glad to find my garden unattended with the open invitation of a fence that only went half way 'round, quickly gorge ...
October 20th, 2007
I have lived in dorms, small rooms or apartments ever since boarding school and in the past ten years or so always have at least a few plants in pots. Living in the Catskills of New York was my first opportunity to have a real garden in my own plot of land, where I could do exactly what I wanted, ho ...
