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Index of Subjects I also thank you Paul for sharing these great observations. The lake I live on (Torment) is part of the North R system that feeds into the Lahave R. My father scuba dived in the lake about 40yrs ago and my brother more recently. Both reported the same massive amount of saw logs,sticks, branches etc packed into the murky channel cut by the current. Not sure how deep but it is about 30' just off the point I am on. How this centuries old debris has influenced the fish and other biota I don't know. We were always told the eels lurked down there hiding in the debris to keep us from swimming out too far.There are definitely eels in this lake but I am not sure they live among the wood at the bottom. There are even rumours that a train car is down there from the logging days- that is what my father was looking for on his dives. (Read Buried in the woods : sawmill ghost towns of Nova Scotia / Mike Parker for a history of logging in this part of NS if you are interested). And wow is the water low here too. The lowest I have ever seen it and very clear near shore as you report. And I too see a lot of Swamp Milkweed along the rocky stream which empties into Rocky Pond/Mossehorn Eddy. This old fishing spot of my father's does not seem like Monarch habitat however but I may be wrong about this. Thanks again for the very interesting report. Nancy E Dalhousie, Kings On 2016-09-08, at 11:39 AM, rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > Hi All > Yesterday a friend and I spent the day in a canoe on the River. > He fished and I paddled. Both of us were very successful. > The river is low - a 20 year low I would say from past time spent on the river. > The low water has exposed a lot of things. It is not only low but very clear > for the Lahave. The amount of wood on the bottom is unbelievable. As examples Trees > fallen into the river, slabs from old saw mills, logs sunk from log drives. I even > saw some logs that were cut with an axe. That wasn't yesterday. The wood does > things to the current, forcing the water in a new direction, digging out channels, > and letting the sand build up in the quite water behind the trees. The water gets > pushed to one side, it digs out the opposite side, trees fall in and the process starts over. > Amazing how the river has changed since I first knew it! > In one area we could see tracks in the sand. close observation revealed they were made by > fresh water Mussels. Mussels are not speeders! Perhaps moving to deeper water for the winter? > One area had a bed of Yellow Ochre. I never saw before and only visible with low water. > Could make paint if I wanted! > Another place we saw a chain sticking out of the bank. It had a 12 cm ring on the end > and six or eight links going back into the sand. That was there a long time and would > have been a valuable item in the old days. Someone missed it you can be sure. > Swamp Milkweed is plentiful on the banks but it must have very special habitat requirements > because it is dominant in places and absent in others. The seed pods are quite visible now > and remind me of candles. Monarch Butterflies would not go hungry there. > Well anyone who read to here, I tip my cap to you! > Have a nice summer > Paul
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