At my most recent visit to Salmon Hole, I found a lot of tracks that seem to be from small mammals and rodents, like mice, squirrels, and rabbits. There were very few trees that had leaves left, although the Oriental Bittersweet still had berries, and the snow below it was covered in fallen berries as well. Since my last visit, the biggest change is that now the landscape is covered in snow and the stagnant water has a layer of ice. The trees have pretty much lost the last of their leaves that were hanging on and the leaf litter that was present on my last visit is now covered in snow as are the smaller plants in the understory. Finally, I saw no evidence animal life outside of the tracks I mentioned above.
