How nice to have an in-stream pond. We dug a farm pond many years ago and could not get the proper approval from fisheries for in-stream. They never could quite articulate a reason, just kept saying it would be 'very difficult' to approve. We ended up having to dig a narrow inlet and outlet with the pond off to the side of the main creek. Ours is much smaller than yours. We get regular visits from herons and eagles, occasional river otters, and battle with beavers every so often (they flood out the entire bottomland, including our access road to the back). In this fall photo, all the white trees in the background are dead alders from our most recent beaver flooding. They become quite dangerous, dropping down without warning.
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