Salmon Hole Phenology

Salmon hole has changed greatly over the years. It started out very green and vegetated. As the fall went on and the winter started to role in, the trees lost their leaves and the normal critters started to show up less and less. Finally, when the snow came in, it offered great opportunities to track […]

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After going back to salmon hole to check on my young sugar maple, i noticed not much has changed. Although it does seem as though the buds have grown a bit, there are no major changes in the tree from the previous week. The landscape however changed drastically. The once snow ridden salmon hole is […]

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After revisiting my tree from before break, I realized that my tree was in fact not a red maple, but a sugar maple. After people on inaturalist recommended that it was a sugar maple, I realized it was much lighter than a red maples bark would be. Besides the landscape around changing such as most […]

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This week, a friend and I went down to salmon hole to look for a tree to follow for the rest of the year. I found a small red maple tree that was not flowering and only had tiny buds. I could tell that this tree was a red maple and not a Norway maple […]

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This week, a few friends and I headed out onto campus to look for wildlife. There was a noticeable lack of snow which made it harder to find tracks, but there were still some tracks we could find. At first, we didn’t see anything. There were no tracks or animals but then, we saw some […]

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After returning to Salmon Hole after being gone for a month, the land scape has changed drastically. ice has overtaken the rocks creating walk paths across the water. There is much less sign of life than in the fall, but there were signs of wildlife. We saw ducks hanging out by the shoreline, and numerous […]

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Since the fall, Salmon Hole has changed a lot. Its once vibrant trees with colorful leaves and a beautiful view are gone and you can now see aways down the river. This visit was much more lonely than the last time I was here as there were no animals at all. The once plentiful tracks […]

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As I sat at salmon hole and took in the surrounds around, I noticed lots had changed since the last time I had visited. There were lots of children playing and fishermen at the river. The water was not as high as it was when I visited directly after a storm, but it was higher […]

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The forest at Salmon hole was made up of honeysuckle, Beech, maples, basswoods, barberry, and northern white cedar.

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