It would be fun to have beavers established on the creek. That would get the pond started without much labor on your part. The question that I would have is what would be attractive to a beaver? Starting a grove o food trees would help convince a captured and released beaver to stay. Cottonwoods and alders are selected for here in Omaha but are not interesting trees.Interesting thought, for sure. I had forgotten, in fact, but there was at one time several years ago something in the creek, probably a beaver (I never saw it, I am no expert in animal tracks, etc., and I did not take pictures) which chewed down some of the smaller trees and-- by appearances-- started to build a dam. But it left or was killed. At present I have 16 goats in the woods, and there is a family of coyotes living there too, almost certainly because of the cover provided by the blackberries which grow profusely over about a third of the wooded area.
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