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    Thanks! Good times for sure....

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    Quote Originally Posted by schindlerpiste View Post
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    Taken (not by me) in Park City this week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TBS View Post
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    The time I spent there catching nothing....
    Granted it was my formative years as a flyfisherman

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    Quote Originally Posted by ::: ::: View Post
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    The time I spent there catching nothing....
    Granted it was my formative years as a flyfisherman
    Yeah...gin clear, shallow water and fish who have seen it all.
    And you get to climb over the finished work of these guys every 20'
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    At least this one knows how to position the undercut. Most of his brethren are directionally challenged when it comes to felling trees

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    Quote Originally Posted by TBS View Post
    Yeah...gin clear, shallow water and fish who have seen it all.
    And you get to climb over the finished work of these guys every 20'
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    At least this one knows how to position the undercut. Most of his brethren are directionally challenged when it comes to felling trees
    I would think a beaver that didn't know how to drop a tree would get squashed before it had a chance to breed.

    For north tahoe truckee folks--if you hike east from the PCT trailhead parking south of I80 and east of Boreal the pond on your right about a 1/4 mile up the trail is a beaver pond and I've seen beaver there. OTOH the "beaver pond" marked on the trail sign at the Summit Canyon trailhead doesn't look like much of a pond. Has anyone ever seen beaver there? Maybe it was a beaver pond at one time. (If you hike that trail stop at the Kathy Polucha Kessler overlook and remember Kathy--a wonderful woman who died in the La Traviata avalanche near Revelstoke in 2003. If you live at Donner Lake she's a big part of the reason you have water to drink.)

    There used to be beaver in Donner Lake--one followed our boat with a trolling motor halfway around the lake once. The state park folks killed the beaver because they were girdling too many trees.

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    It's not a matter of getting squashed, the ones in this neighborhood just drop them like matchsticks in every direction instead of downhill into the water. And they seem to pick the trees that are just uphill of the trail...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TBS View Post
    It's not a matter of getting squashed, the ones in this neighborhood just drop them like matchsticks in every direction instead of downhill into the water. And they seem to pick the trees that are just uphill of the trail...
    I think they drop the trees and then take the branches to build the dam. And obviously they're trying to block the trail.

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    Freakin’ NIMBY beavers, I tell ya
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

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    Quote Originally Posted by old goat View Post
    I would think a beaver that didn't know how to drop a tree would get squashed before it had a chance to breed.
    They are rodents. And breed as such. They are more likely to over-populate a habitat and mass die-off from disease and starvation. And then the pond renews, and if there are beaver elsewhere in the watershed, they will return. I've worked in areas that were fallow from beaver for 50+ yrs, then a breeding pair move in and within 2 season, the valley is flooded again, and even the offending pitchy spruce are felled to make room. And in 20yrs or so the cycle starts over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BCMtnHound View Post
    They are rodents. And breed as such. They are more likely to over-populate a habitat and mass die-off from disease and starvation. And then the pond renews, and if there are beaver elsewhere in the watershed, they will return. I've worked in areas that were fallow from beaver for 50+ yrs, then a breeding pair move in and within 2 season, the valley is flooded again, and even the offending pitchy spruce are felled to make room. And in 20yrs or so the cycle starts over again.
    Good stuff to know.

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    Nice family!
    Despite the chance of getting sprayed I would MUCH rather see these guys alive and well than flattened on the road. I ran into one a couple years ago while bushwhacking around looking for rock to climb and realized it was the first live one I had ever seen in 35 or so years. Great looking critter and pretty funny to watch from a distance.

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    Park City ungulate trail police :

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    Another PC ungulate, not raising any alarms with Sam-dog:

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    A dragon:

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    Hanging out in the yard this week...

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    And my majestic dog Stevie...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
    You don't get to post a shot like that without telling us what it is.
    Nice shot btw. IME getting good pictures of birds is rarely successful.

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    Steve would have given us a couple informative paragraphs on the waxwing. I miss learning about birds here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parvo View Post
    Hanging out in the yard this week...

    And my majestic dog Stevie...
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    You Steve?

    Nope, he is.

    Border Collie or Aussie? (can't see tail)
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    You Steve?

    Nope, he is.

    Border Collie or Aussie? (can't see tail)
    She's an Idaho Shag with some Catahoula, border collie, and psychopath... typical rez dog.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parvo View Post
    She's an Idaho Shag with some Catahoula, border collie, and psychopath... typical rez dog.
    Stevie is a fucking G. Mad hops on that one.
    swing your fucking sword.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parvo View Post
    She's an Idaho Shag with some Catahoula, border collie, and psychopath... typical rez dog.
    Love the Idaho Shag mix, but they can be a serious pain in the ass. Click image for larger version. 

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    Ahh, love those chin whiskers!

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    Backyard buck is going to be a gagger.

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    We have a bunch of day lilies on our deck which have been attracting hummingbirds. Yesterday there was a small one that spent a lot of time sucking from a bunch of the flowers. My wife told me it wasn't a hummingbird, it was a moth. I told her she was crazy. Turns out I was. Hummingbird moths. Never heard of them before--they hum, their wings beat too fast to see, they suck nectar just like a hummingbird, there bodies look like they could be birds unless you look close. They are smaller than a hummingbird. I didn't take a picture.

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    I have a picture of one of those hummingbird moths I’ll try to find that was in my garden.
    It tripped me out too when I first saw/ learned about them.
    skid luxury

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    Hummingbird moths are fun to watch, and they are important pollinators. I'm not a fan of their larva though.





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