{"id":24,"date":"2016-11-16T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-11-16T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T03:21:25","slug":"24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/2016\/11\/16\/24\/","title":{"rendered":"A Landscape Shaped by Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those straight cuts of those alders could have only been done by a human. \u00a0That trail is too wide and level to have been made by an animal. \u00a0The irregular waterways cutting through the marshlands\u00a0surrounding Basin Pond must be a vestige of the geological history of the area.<\/p>\n

These are the things I believed. \u00a0Now, I am no longer so sure.<\/p>\n

After doing some reading<\/a>\u00a0and going back again to look at some of these areas, I am thinking that a singular creature,\u00a0Castor canadensis, the American beaver, may be responsible for these phenomena.<\/p>\n

Lots more learning to come. \u00a0The photos below are of the multi-channeled waterways that cut through the marshlands surrounding Basin Pond,<\/p>\n

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Those straight cuts of those alders could have only been done by a human. \u00a0That trail is too wide and level to have been made by an animal. \u00a0The irregular waterways cutting through the marshlands\u00a0surrounding Basin Pond must be a vestige of the geological history of the area. These are the things I believed. \u00a0Now, … Continue reading A Landscape Shaped by Beavers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaver","category-natural-history","tag-beaver","tag-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}