I did enjoy the read, 'Small pond in the woods.' Clearing roughly 1 acre of forest, as well as taking out the GRAND Oak, for a .3 ac pond has me on a course for martial conflict. Don't quite know how to tell the wife about this. Honey, 'ya know the 90' oak, yea the 1 with the 4 squirrel dens up high, well yesterday I ... She's gonna shoot me. What ideas are out there on leaving some limited forest around the pond yet minimizing the water drawdown impact?
