About 1,000 ft. out of my neighborhood I also discovered a chain of ponds that were nestled against a forest. At night you'd hear frogs and toads going insane, I've never heard an amphibian population be so loud!!! I went out at night with a flashlight and some knee-high boots, and walked out into it... I could see clear to the bottom with the beam of light, and I saw a baby Snapper about smaller than my fist. He was just walking along the bottom of the pond nibbling at algea and such completely ignoring me standing over him with a flashlight right on him...
I scooped him up and had a nice close look at him, good stuff, released and left...
I come back to the same place about two months later... I fell to my knees in awe... Everything was gone... Tractors were everywhere, nothing but equiptment... The swamp-like ponds that were previously there were drained and filled... There was nothing but smooth dirt land and building equiptment... I threw an enourmous temper tanrum and slashed a few tractor tires that day...
It just pisses me off so much!!! I can't help but think, what the hell happened to the animals in that pond? That little turtle that made such an impression on me that night in the pond with my flashlight? What happens to them when this happens???
That pond that I just posted pictures of that this post is in reply too... How long 'till that's gone? How long 'till all those turtles, including the ones you saw in the pictures, are out of luck too? I'm so sick and tired of it, everything is just so driven by the lust for money. It's utterly disqusting... And the local wildlife gets crapped on...
There was a huge dirt field/grassland area that I just to walk to... Everywhere you went, toads just scattered left and right, tons of'em... They lived here, and they thrived... Now that's gone, nothing but building equiptment and barren bulldozed land...
Makes me feel disqusted to be a part of mankind...
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