Everyone Told Him to Let the Beavers Stay — By Spring His Pond Dam Was Gone

A Missouri farm pond, a dam built with a scraper in the seventies, and a pair of beavers the whole county said to leave alone. This is the story of what they did to the pipe, the crown and the wet face of that dam, and what a heavy spring rain did with it. It follows the walk I'd take on any earthen dam: the pipe mouth, the spillway, the crown, the waterline. It also covers who to call, what to plug, what to fence and what to leave alone upstream