Reply to Biggus:
Some may have read your most recent ad-hominem Christmas Day post before it was removed.
Normally, it would have been ignored by me; however, it arrived coincidentally the same day that some long-awaited digital photos arrived.
These are photos of tree roots of a maple at my shore front. The trunk does not appear in the pictures. The tree itself still stands, but presently has only one living branch. It’s about the same diameter as others I have cut for firewood on my lot -- and counted the rings -- so it‘s a ~50-year-old tree. Most sprang up opportunistically when the builder accidentally cut down every marketable tree 50 years ago in a "landscape adjustment".
The black shoes in the lower part of the photo are mine, and rest about a foot above the June Winnipesaukee-level waters.
What those shoes should have been standing on is soil. The tree parts you see are three-foot-long roots from which the soil has been washed away into the lake. I’d estimate that there’s more than four feet of shoreline missing.
Some quiet days, a rock will sploosh into the lake. The sound has always puzzled me, as I previously thought it was only ice that caused shoreline destruction. Big Boat wakes washing mud into Winnipesaukee is a good thing?
Now this formerly-mute maple tree can illustrate what happens when Big Boats are introduced to a lake.
Since about 1985, the lake, its structures, its woods, its water, its shoreline, its decibels, has changed -- as we have long discussed -- and the changes coincide with the arrival of the “Me” Generation.
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