The personal and professional website of Douglas Van Bossuyt
We did some work removing dead trees around Forked Meadow. This one was a threat to the driveway.
These two trees were near the house and needed to come down.
We did some electrical work at Camp El-O-Win.
The meadows sure are beautiful in the early fall!
I spent a lovely couple weeks at Forked Meadow in August house sitting for my parents. This summer has been very dry but also gorgeous. The creek is starting to dry up which has not happened like this in the last 30 years that anyone in the area remembers. That’s not a great sign for the drought.
The meadows are absolutely gorgeous now that it’s summer. But the creeks are drying up and some areas are getting pretty brown much earlier than they normally would.
A family of deer have been visiting the lower meadow every morning. There is still plenty of forage for them but I wish they’d stay away from the willows. We’ve spent a lot of time trying to re-establish willows in the meadows after the cows mowed them down for 100+ years.
Doing some work up by Mary’s Meadow to prepare for a controlled burn sometime next year. We’ll be doing underburning.
The garage is almost done. And wow it’s beautiful here!
HUGE bear tracks near the upper Exchequer Meadow! It’s probably our friendly neighborhood bear who never gives us any problems and just loves living his best life away from people.
A young black bear visited my parents at Forked Meadow. They know the resident bear who likes to hang out in the upper meadows and never comes down to the house. This is a young bear maybe displaced by the Creek Fire who is new to the area. He wandered over from the Target Rock Road cabins, past the new shop, along the house, and then drank from the hummingbird feeder by the back door! My dad chased him off a few times over a couple days and then they didn’t see him again. He might have become a rug on someone’s wall if he got into the 4×4 camps up off Rock Creek Road.
