Since that first meeting volunteers have been turning up every first and third Sunday of the month to rehabilitate the pond. The woods have been alive with the sound of chain saws, cutting, heavy breathing from the effort of moving wood, and curses when scrubbing out brambles. Weather permitting a large fire is started and trimmings and brambles burned. Large logs are stacked in piles to encourage beetles and fungi. Nature only needs a small window of opportunity to flourish. We were hoping to give it a patio door.

The trees had so overshadowed the pond that it was not easy for birds to get to the water unless they could land and take off vertically! Opening up the area around the pond will makr it possible for ducks to fly in and land on the water. The increased light to the pond will encourage the growth of the oxygen producing plants in the water. Increased oxygen in the water will encourage the presence of insects, which can then feed on the plants.