Swede Lake is the Swamp of the Day 10/20/10
Swede Lake in Carver County is almost 450 acres with a maximum depth of 12 feet. The fish population is presently dominated by black bullheads, green sunfish, and fathead minnows.
Swamp of the Day 10/19/2010
Muskrat families build nests to protect themselves and the young from cold and predators. In streams, ponds or lakes, muskrats burrow into the bank with an underwater entrance. These entrances are 6 to 8 inches wide. In marshes, lodges are constructed from vegetation and mud. These lodges are up to three feet in height. In [...]
Oak Lake is the Swamp of the Day 10/18/2010
Oak lake, situated mostly in section 11 of Carver county, is one and a half miles long and about one and a quarter miles long and has almost nine miles of shallow gravelly shoreline. The lake is well stocked with fish and has two beautiful islands.
Swamp of the Day 10/17/10
Sweet Is The Swamp With Its Secrets by Emily Dickinson Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake; ‘Tis then we sigh for houses, And our departure take At that enthralling gallop That only childhood knows. A snake is summer’s treason, And guile is where it goes.
Swamp of the Day 10/16/10
“Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.” – G. K. Chesterton
