It has been a a bit since I posted anything about Timber Cruising, mostly because the areas I was in were mostly Ash Swamp, Alder Swamp or Tamarack/Balsam Bogs. They were wet, ugly and difficult. Do not get me wrong, I do love Tamarack bogs, and there were many beautiful Tamarack islands in there, but I did not feel compeled to write about them.
Today I cruised the NE 1/4 SEC10 T60N R14W which is still in Waasa Township. It was mostly uplands, the only time I got wet was in the morning walking through the ferns. An overall enjoyable day.
There are a lot of brown ferns now, the night-time temperatures have been fairly low. The Red Maples are turning as well. There were very few mosquitos, but the green flies are still numerous.
I surveyed a Maple Swamp, the nice thing about them is that they are only wet in the spring.
Scared up two white tail does as I passed by a meadow. They were out sunning, and probably grazing as well.
It does not look like I will go out on Tuesday, rain makes it very difficult to write, since I do not have a Rite-in-the-Rain field book yet.
Last nights NWS forecast was calling for snow on Thursday night, but now they are not. Oh well, it is that time of year.
Until next time.
