Sustaining Freshwater Wetlands: Cass County, Minnesota

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Author
Holmer, Marilyn
Date
2009
Degree
Master of Arts in Earth Literacy
Abstract
The beavers next door live in a fascinating and beautiful home---an eighty-acre cattail marsh framed by rolling hills forested with birch, tall white pines, and a scattering of oak and maple trees- --the domain of deer, foxes, bears, and many kinds of birds, both predator and prey. Among the alder thickets bordering the marsh and in the stream and beaver pond are muskrats, otters, minks, raccoons, and snowshoe hares; and redwings nest in the cattails and painted turtles sun on old mossy logs. This is also my sense of place (Illus 1), where I canoe and feel at home with the “Land”. (Marilyn Holmer)
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