We had a family of beavers working hard. They took down a poplar tree that landed in the middle of one of the hiking trails. Jim sawed it up and threw the branches in the water. The next morning (about 4am) we went out to see if they had come back for their tree. Sure enough all six of them were feasting on the leaves and bark of the tree branches. All they left behind were smooth shiny sticks when they were finished. So Jim sawed up the trunk of the tree and threw that in the water. The next morning that was gone. Not sure if they ate the whole thing or carried off to store it for later. The Forest Service doesn't like the beavers taking down live trees along the shore of the campground so we have kept quiet about it. Its too much fun watching them, listening to them chew on wood and swim away with their meal.
Its been a little hazy here with smoke from the fires in Canada drifting down. Last summer we ate smoke for awhile in Idaho from all the fires out west. Seems like we can't get away from fire and smoke in late summer.
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