Lowered Beaver Pond

Did the great beaver dam pipe experiment succeed?

Pipe

Why yes, yes it did. You can see one of the pipes underneath the second log. And the water in the beaver pond is clearly lower.

Maybe the beavers won’t gnaw down as many trees. Gnawed

Here’s where the water goes:

Downstream

The pipe is open; water is running through. You may wonder why the water is also lower below this beaver dam. Because we put a pipe in the next dam down, too.

An amusing oak arch:

Arch

Lower water level:

Poison Ivy

With poison ivy!

-jsq