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Catface and beaver pond<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\nThe rest of the tree long ago was logged.<\/p>\n
\nBehind the pine tree stump and the adjoining oak tree,
\nyou can see a beaver pond.<\/p>\n
\n \nNearby are numerous dead trees, girdled by the beavers, who always seek to expand their ponds.<\/p>\n \n \nThe beavers have still more dams upstream on Redeye Creek.<\/p>\n \n \nIf the catface tree hadn’t been logged, the beavers probably would have girdled it and it would be another deadfall. \n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, my father and grandfather paid off the mortgage on the farm through income from turpentine. This is a catface, where the bark was scraped off a pine tree so its sap would ooze out, to be caught in a metal cup nailed below on the tree. Catface […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,6,36],"tags":[2821,2988,338,3182,3183,3185,297,3,3186,1666,5,3184,2,2760,426,2772,960],"class_list":["post-8402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaver","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-silviculture","tag-beaver","tag-beaver-pond","tag-beavers","tag-catface","tag-cup","tag-deadfalls","tag-forestry","tag-georgia","tag-girdled","tag-great-depression","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-logged","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-pine","tag-silviculture","tag-turpentine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8404,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"[Beaver](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-06-16--catface-beaver-pond\/20200616_132742.jpg\")
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Beaver pond<\/a>\n<\/p>\n![\"[Beaver](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-06-16--catface-beaver-pond\/20200616_132743.jpg\")
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Beaver deadfall<\/a>\n<\/p>\n![\"[Yet](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-06-16--catface-beaver-pond\/20200616_133805.jpg\")
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Yet another beaver dam<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\nThis is why we need to reduce the beaver population on our land.<\/p>\n