Have not updated this in a while. Figured I should with some photos:
Cypress trees are coming along nicely, the ones that ware not planted to deeply.
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The pond water level has stabilized and been at nearly the same level for 2 years now. The flooded grasses are gone now and are being replaced with wetland and marsh plants. If I had my flyrod, I could have sight cast to cruising LMB today in these shallows:
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Main body of the pond today, need to do something about all the water primrose that makes shore fishing tough one of these years:
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North part of the pond, here is where the stable water level has really shown itself with a defined shoreline starting to develop. Looks better than a bunch of dead terrestrial plants. The tree line on the left is still dieing off from flooding, and i am salvaging some of that for lumber:
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Here is some salvaged timber from the flooded areas I cut today for my sawmill. Cedar, cedar elm, and a hickory log along with my Logrite Junior fetching arch:
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