On This Day - Beaver activity (2014)

 November 16, 2014

On this day in 2014 I had the opportunity to see the extent of what beavers can do to trees when I visited New Boston, NH.

Beaver activity
Timber

Beaver activity
These are not small trees

Beaver activity
Bark is yummy

Beaver activity
I wonder how many beaver get killed by their own activity

Beaver activity
This was all fresh when I took the photos. I went back several years later and the beavers had moved on

Beaver activity
Detail of teeth marks

Beaver activity
Work in progress

Beaver activity
None of the trees fell into the road or against power lines



Beaver activity
High fiber diet


Location: New Boston, NH, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Image
The Little Red School House located in New Canaan, CT was Connecticut's last operating one-room schoolhouse. My cousin's husband attended the school and took us for a tour in October of 2006. Opening its doors in 1868, this Carter Street treasure was Connecticut’s last operating one-room schoolhouse when it closed in 1957. Acquired by the Society in 2003, it was restored thanks to the generous support of Society members, nonprofit groups, former students and friends. Longtime Schoolmistress Mary J. Kelley, who studied there in the 1890s and went on to earn a teaching certificate, was a “loving but strict” presence there for 47 years. The Kelley family home is just a stone’s throw from her classroom. Like the Rock School, the small room centered around the pot-bellied stove, with rows of slanted desks screwed to the wood-plank floor. Some 30 children from first through fifth grades received instruction under the watchful eyes of Miss Kelley. Former students recall that...
Read more

The Samuel Tarbell-Ames House

Image
The Samuel Tarbell-Ames House is one of the homes located in the National Register of Historic Places, New Ipswich Center Village Historic District. Center village is bounded roughly by Turnpike Road, Porter Hill Road, Main Street, Route 123A, Preston Hill Road, Manley Road and King Road. This is the description of the #34 property in the National Register: This large residence was built by Samuel Tarbell Ames (1810-1897), probably around 1890, as he is listed as owner on the 1892 Map. He was a Boston businessman who summered in New Ipswich, presumably before he built this house, as his wife was Mary Hartwell Barr, a daughter of Dr. James Barr, who lived at #33 across Appleton Common, and a sister of George Lyman Barr and Caroline Frances Barr, and whose cousin Elizabeth Keyser, lived at #30. The house then passed to Samuel's son, James Barr Ames (1846-1910), who was an Assistant Professor and Dean of the Harvard Law School. He was esteemed for his teaching and writing on l...
Read more

Veterans Breakfast at Mascenic HS

Image
 Veterans Breakfast Thank you students and staff of Mascenic High School for hosting a breakfast for the town Veterans. Also thanks for the serenade of military service songs for each branch. Serving Breakfast to Veterans Chatting with Teachers and Veterans
Read more