For the last few weeks, my lakefront water has alternated between clear and covered with algae. Yesterday, on a walkabout, I found a layer of algae all along our shoreline. I also noticed what looked like a crack of clear water running for at least two-hundred feet through the becalmed green layer on the surface.
I stood near the shore for a
moment, wondering what caused the algae to crack. And then it struck me: I was seeing the trail
left by one of our local muskrats swimming along the shore as they regularly
do.
—Mitchell Hegman
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