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Warrick & Jenkins at Home - 2006

The tractors have reproduced. His and Hers tractors

We've done more work making trails through the forest on the bank north of our house. The idea is to encourage the forest to recover to its natural state, with just a few narrow footpaths along the bank so we can walk through to enjoy it. Path to the overlook

There is a wider path through the forest about 100 feet below the bank. We've extended this path from one side of the property to the other. The path near our house.

The path near the barn.

We've dressed up the steps leading up the hill from the wider grassy path to paths along the overlook. His and Hers tractors

Over the winter, more trees were blown over. This spring we had them dropped, then we bucked them up, split and stacked the firewood. This pile is neater than last year's. A little more than three cords.

In the spring we enlarged the garden, pulled more rocks out of the soil and augmented with composted wood chips and cow manure. Veggies.

In June Bowen left us and returned to Santa Cruz. After a suitable interval of grieving, we reclaimed his bachelor pad in the barn loft and returned it to guesthouse status. The mezzanine

Living area.

Sleeping area.

John is becoming pretty proficient at bringing home dinner. This is a summer-run hatchery steelhead. Hatchery Steelhead for dinner.

The native, winter-run steelhead was catch and release. Native Steelhead.

In the winter, we helped with the park's snow surveys.

In the summer we helped with intertidal surveys. The first link below is an album of pictures from one intertidal survey. The second link is a map of several of our survey sites.
Tubeworm Survey Pictures
A map of several intertidal survey sites Digging up snow samples at Hoh Lake.

Finally, a word about wildlife. There is a rodent around here called a "mountain beaver". Call it a gopher on steroids. They eat young evergreen trees. The habitat on our property is their favorite, especially all of the young hemlocks and doug firs that we have planted to try to restore the forest. They are pests, because of the damage they do during reforestation. Locally, they are also called "boomers"; so here are a couple of pictures of a "boomer" that John caught munching on our vegetation. Mountain Beaver

Mountain Beaver Closeup.

And here is a picture of a young mountain beaver that was wandering about on our path.

For all of you folks out there, this is what a baby boomer really looks like.

Baby Boomer.

The tractors have reproduced.
We've done more work making trails through the forest on the bank north of our house. The idea is to encourage the forest to recover to its natural state, with just a few narrow footpaths along the bank so we can walk through to enjoy it.

There is a wider path through the forest about 100 feet below the bank. We've extended this path from one side of the property to the other.

We've dressed up the steps leading up the hill from the wider grassy path to paths along the overlook.
Over the winter, more trees were blown over. This spring we had them dropped, then we bucked them up, split and stacked the firewood. This pile is neater than last year's.
In the spring we enlarged the garden, pulled more rocks out of the soil and augmented with composted wood chips and cow manure.
In June Bowen left us and returned to Santa Cruz. After a suitable interval of grieving, we reclaimed his bachelor pad in the barn loft and returned it to guesthouse status.


John is becoming pretty proficient at bringing home dinner. This is a summer-run hatchery steelhead.
The native, winter-run steelhead was catch and release.
In the winter, we helped with the park's snow surveys. In the summer we helped with intertidal surveys. The first link below is an album of pictures from one intertidal survey. The second link is a map of several of our survey sites. Tubeworm Survey Pictures A map of several intertidal survey sites
Finally, a word about wildlife. There is a rodent around here called a "mountain beaver". Call it a gopher on steroids. They eat young evergreen trees. The habitat on our property is their favorite, especially all of the young hemlocks and doug firs that we have planted to try to restore the forest. They are pests, because of the damage they do during reforestation. Locally, they are also called "boomers"; so here are a couple of pictures of a "boomer" that John caught munching on our vegetation.

And here is a picture of a young mountain beaver that was wandering about on our path. For all of you folks out there, this is what a baby boomer really looks like.