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IMG_2503.JPG Another hiker stepped on this ground beetle.

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IMG_2504.JPG That's not solid ground.

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IMG_2506.JPG The beavers are hard at work.

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IMG_2509.JPG This is probably a burrow of some kind, but we don't know for what animal.

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IMG_2513.JPG The iridescent green bit in the middle was a sphinx beetle hustling for cover.

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IMG_2517.JPG There's the dam that's slowly converting that field into a swamp.

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IMG_2520.JPG Mud with a high concentration of iron oxide. Jarin called it bog iron.

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IMG_2522.JPG A veritable forest of reeds.