A beaver moved into my mother's small pond this fall and set to work on improvements. By the time the ice sealed the pond's surface, this beaver had a fine lodge plastered with mud and an underwater pile of branches — the winter larder. My mother is a worrier and she worries about this beaver.
Groundhog Day as a predictor of winter.
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Patti Smith is a naturalist at the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (where all are welcome to enjoy the trails from dawn to dusk). Climate resilience is the theme of BEEC’s Mud Season Speakers series with Brooks Memorial Library. Find out about the Hurricane of Thirty-eight with author Stephen Long on March 9. Learn more at www.beec.org. Patti welcomes your feedback at patti@beec.org.
