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Work at the Treatment Plant ignited a fire in some big plastic filters. A fierce brief fire with toxic black smoke consumed a small corner of three hackberry trees, an elm, redbud and head high old ragweed and sunflowers. The heat was great enough to ignite the upper branches of two old bur oak snags a hundred feet away. Everything was quickly extinguished when the Fire Department arrived. Another interesting disturbance to contemplate.. interesting to watch recovery with spring rains. What will be the first green on the hillside where heat was so great?
Last few days have been foggy or low overcast all day with temps in the mid forties day and night. Remarkably the Vespula ground wasp nest is still active. At 10 am this morning there was a regular stream of foragers landing and entering.. appeared undiminished from warmer days two weeks past.
Walking the southern and eastern Woods this morning I saw no deer, only a handful of squirrels. There has been considerable foraging going on along the white trail. The Woods are quite dry but also shut down for winter (all the leaves been down for a few weeks now).
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