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Re: [Livingontheland] Muskegon River Valley, (read swamp).
- From: SALTMINES@aol.com
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- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Muskegon River Valley, (read swamp).
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:38:51 EDT
In a message dated 3/15/2007 2:17:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
zdomike@yahoo.com writes:
Zack,
I appreciate the input.
About flooding: this will be our 3rd Spring here and our section has not
been flooded yet. We have a neighbor down river who has to canoe from
house to his parked vehicles when the 'Dam' people upriver release excess
during high water (snow melt, April showers). Our flat 5 acres are
elevated about 40' to 60' above the bottom land. Our creek that runs
through our lower section is runoff/drainage from fields to the north which
are used for pasture and hay making (no unnatural chemicals that I
know of).
Also, neighbors on both sides log their 'swamp' land, call it woodlot
management. The bottom land I'm talking about is 20' or so higher
than actual river height, and probably hasn't been flooded since the glaciers
carved it out. Neighboring farms grow crops on the same level but
there it has been cleared for over a century, flooding is from runoff
on the way to the river, not the river rising to it. If the water
ever gets that high, entire communities up and down the river would be
devastated I think.
Also, along the hillside to the bottomland the land 'weeps' constantly as
the fields are drained. The hillsides have a fantastically rich crop of
skunk cabbage and trillium in the blackest, richest soil I've ever seen, totally
full of life. That soil has to have migrated to the lower section. I'm
going to explore it thoroughly now that the snow cover is going away, check out
the high spots for sites.
Your advice is encourage ring! Thanks.
Stephen (Western Michigan)
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[Livingontheland] Muskegon River Valley, (read swamp).,
Zachary Domikez, 03/14/2007
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