noneofmany
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Golly. I just bought an amazing new home with a stream on the property in Monroe WA yesterday and it's the highest quality herp habitat I've ever seen.
It has a creek on it that is perfectly pure due to the elevation above the house and the community is super environmental (no one can use pesticides in the neighborhood),
Moreover the stream exists in a old growth type forest with a mix mix of deciduous and fir trees that cover the ground with tones of loamy soil and dead branches that are covered in moss and ferns. The ground is always moist but it never gets soggy, even when the stream is flooding in heavy rain.
I actually spoke with women who lived it before and discovered that she does see neotenic giant salamanders in the stream now and then (even though she doesn't search for them).
The stream also has some of the most colorful sigil crayfish I've ever seen, I think they have really good diet thanks to all the leaves that fall in the water. I also saw some very nice brook trout in it when I visited!
On land the property has wood frogs, leopard frogs, tree frogs, toads, long toed salamanders, rough skinned newts, northwestern salamanders, alligator lizards, garder snakes and I'm pretty sure even rubber boas!
It's a jack pot!
The property owners in the area are all appear to be aware of how special the stream is and the various uncommon animals on it!
I'm going to try to get some good pictures of the animal life on the property next spring and summer to share with everybody here when it starts getting warm again.
So excited!
It has a creek on it that is perfectly pure due to the elevation above the house and the community is super environmental (no one can use pesticides in the neighborhood),
Moreover the stream exists in a old growth type forest with a mix mix of deciduous and fir trees that cover the ground with tones of loamy soil and dead branches that are covered in moss and ferns. The ground is always moist but it never gets soggy, even when the stream is flooding in heavy rain.
I actually spoke with women who lived it before and discovered that she does see neotenic giant salamanders in the stream now and then (even though she doesn't search for them).
The stream also has some of the most colorful sigil crayfish I've ever seen, I think they have really good diet thanks to all the leaves that fall in the water. I also saw some very nice brook trout in it when I visited!
On land the property has wood frogs, leopard frogs, tree frogs, toads, long toed salamanders, rough skinned newts, northwestern salamanders, alligator lizards, garder snakes and I'm pretty sure even rubber boas!
It's a jack pot!
The property owners in the area are all appear to be aware of how special the stream is and the various uncommon animals on it!
I'm going to try to get some good pictures of the animal life on the property next spring and summer to share with everybody here when it starts getting warm again.
So excited!