Spring news
We have two geese making their home on the upper pond, and as a result, there is a lot of goose poop on the dam road. It seems a small price to pay for such interesting visitors. The number of crawdad carcasses seems to be diminishing, but maybe the live ones have just gone deeper. There have been no dead fish seen - yay! After much work on the spillway, the leak continues. Maybe someone visiting this summer will be able to figure it out. In the meantime, Mike thought he had spotted some algae on the spring stream feeding into the pond, so we went to scoop it out. Turns out it's mostly grass, and we scooped out as much as we could. The stream otherwise looks healthy. Mike and I hiked the Perimeter Trail from the Visitors Center to Cascade Falls last week, and it's completely clear of snow. The Ouray Trail Group had done a lot of work on that section earlier in April, and even though Mike talked me through what they had done, I ...