Twice I visited the primary dam this weekend and both times there was a rush of water from what appeared to be a grapefruit sized hole under the location of the gap.The beavers seemed attentive to the hole but unsure of the best way to plug it up. They checked up and down stream, but the rush of water was too strong for mud and two wide for a stick. I saw mom, dad and kits finally just swim away in uncertain response. Maybe they knew the secondary dam was a bigger priority. Maybe they had another problem on their minds that I wasn’t even aware of.
I just wanted to hand them a plug and say, “here try this”
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I suppose its not only beavers that sometimes face holes that drain away resources faster than they can be refilled. (Insert economy remark here.)
