This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo was taken along a rough road in the Forest of Dean. It serves English Forestry and their contractors when they’re felling, planting, or thinning the trees, but it also serves as a public footpath and bridleway running from the road that leads to The Pludds up to Ruardean Woodside. These two small villages are pretty communities with strong communities. We have walked to and through them often on our longer hikes.

Out of sight, to the right, a small stream flows down the narrow valley eventually feeding the area now assigned to our small family of beavers. These were introduced as an experiment to reduce the occasional flooding that used to cause problems for another village further down the valley. That experiment has worked well. Beavers are great hydro-engineers, their dams both filter and slow the water, creating useful wetland environments for many different forms of wildlife and plants.

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