1/9/01
We snowshoed in; a great success.  Visited Big View Prairie and came down Fern Valley Trail.  We also visited Beaver Lake; the beavers have made a dam about 5 feet high using all the mud from the bulldozer that Dave Tork’s guy ran over our wetland.  The lake is huge.

1/16/01
Snowshoes again.  We went up the bluff to Sumac Prairie and discovered a new prairie area on the SW corner of that bluff.  It looks like it has some sweet clover, but a great view.  We also investigated Pine Point Field and the area down to the creek.  There’s a new spring, right at the edge of our property.  It seems to be surrounded by sedge meadow.  And above that, along the western edge of the field, is a little mesic prairie with Big Bluestem, Yellow Coneflower, and Monarda.  It will be fun to see it in the summer.