No Fence Wetlands Constructing First Pond 6/15/2023

The First Pond Excavation Begins in the Hayfield. All Soils are Outwash Deposits from Mica Mountain Watershed over Geological Time.
The Pond is Being Dug. Topsoil and Subsoil Fill Trucked to Hillock Piles. Light Color is Subsoils.
The Darker Topsoil Removed from Pond is Graded onto Top of Hillock for Replanting.
Pond and Fill and Tributary Construction Concepts.
Topsoil and Subsoil Fill Trucked from Pond Excavation Makes the Base of Hillocks. Only Clods of Subsoil with No Rocks at All.
View of Hillock with Topsoil Made from Pond Fill. The Fill from Other Ponds Used in Similar Ways.
Topsoil Graded Over Dug Up Subsoil Before Planting. The White Spot in Pond is Water from Thunderstorm.
Drone Flight View of First Pond and Hillock Near Completion. Inflow Tributaries from Forest Built Later.
Drone Flight of First Pond. Each Pond has Similar Construction Steps.

After 100 years plus of Grazing and Haying this meadow is being restored to boggy beaver ponds.