Yesterday, I discovered that our local rodents chopped down a native willow tree that I was nurturing along. When it first popped up a few years ago, I tied a bright pink ribbon on it to protect it from the mower and it had grown to about 15 feet and was starting to fill out. Now just a gnawed off stump, no sign of any part of the tree itself. So sad. It was a scouler willow. Dang beavers!
