We were able to find the back left property line as well as a large waterway with ferns and mushrooms growing everywhere. It was beautiful and smelled earthy and moist down there. We are going back today to collect the mushrooms and make a trail connecting the two we’ve made down to the creek. We found black trumpet mushrooms on our oldest trail. They were leathery and old, so inedible, but at least we know where to find them now. We were serenaded by a pileated woodpecker.

Since it had rained the whole day before, we were able to see the movement of the water from the debris.

We culled some hundreds of tiny thin tulip poplars from multiple sites this week as part of our continuing forest clean up. We extended our trails and tested 3 different locations for pH levels which were all 6.6. Slightly acidic. It looks fertile down by the creek.