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torrilin reblogged your video and added:
My main concern would be how high the stream gets? It looks like barring hurricane or major logging it should be ok, but it also looks like a big enough stream that there’s no way you can control all upstream logging.
And rereading that with computer brain switched on is very odd
Oh, I’ve had the yurt in its present site during a 100-year flood. (There have been, heh, three 100-year-floods since my sister moved onto the property four years ago, make of that what you will.) So I’ve seen what happens, and we can see the marks from how high the water got during Hurricane Irene (which was a big deal up here, and killed a number of people not far away), and it’s still not all the way up to where the yurt will be.
There’s no wilderness around, really, is the thing, so very little logging happens. And really, it’s not that big a stream– a few hundred feet down, it joins the Quackenkill, which is big, but the stream on the farm is so small there’s not even a name, I don’t think. Its source is a number of springs, starting on the neighboring property which is still a farm but will surely go for development when the old man dies (Farmsister would love to buy it, but is unlikely to be able to get another easement from the state to afford it! It’s a daydream, though), but it increases a lot in size just a little ways up where a few springs come down out of the hillside. There’s another huge spring that originates and becomes a pond just a little ways over, and then goes into a culvert and winds up in the Quackenkill. (And the Quackenkill meets the Poestenkill not far off at all, and from there, they go together into the Hudson River, not all that far off.)
So the stream comes up its banks a little in hard rains, but never as high as the top of the bank, where I’m putting the yurt platform. It’ll be on the same level closer to the stream as it was a little farther away. The site formerly housed a hoop-house for the farm, from about 20 years ago onward; they park tractors there now, which is part of the reason I want to move back– they keep putting more and more farm equipment up closer and closer to the yurt’s present site, and I’d rather have a little more space thanks. Also, more shade would be nice.
torrilin reblogged your video and added:
My main concern would be how high the stream gets? It looks like barring hurricane or major logging it should be ok, but it also looks like a big enough stream that there’s no way you can control all upstream logging.
And rereading that with computer brain switched on is very odd
Oh, I’ve had the yurt in its present site during a 100-year flood. (There have been, heh, three 100-year-floods since my sister moved onto the property four years ago, make of that what you will.) So I’ve seen what happens, and we can see the marks from how high the water got during Hurricane Irene (which was a big deal up here, and killed a number of people not far away), and it’s still not all the way up to where the yurt will be.
There’s no wilderness around, really, is the thing, so very little logging happens. And really, it’s not that big a stream– a few hundred feet down, it joins the Quackenkill, which is big, but the stream on the farm is so small there’s not even a name, I don’t think. Its source is a number of springs, starting on the neighboring property which is still a farm but will surely go for development when the old man dies (Farmsister would love to buy it, but is unlikely to be able to get another easement from the state to afford it! It’s a daydream, though), but it increases a lot in size just a little ways up where a few springs come down out of the hillside. There’s another huge spring that originates and becomes a pond just a little ways over, and then goes into a culvert and winds up in the Quackenkill. (And the Quackenkill meets the Poestenkill not far off at all, and from there, they go together into the Hudson River, not all that far off.)
So the stream comes up its banks a little in hard rains, but never as high as the top of the bank, where I’m putting the yurt platform. It’ll be on the same level closer to the stream as it was a little farther away. The site formerly housed a hoop-house for the farm, from about 20 years ago onward; they park tractors there now, which is part of the reason I want to move back– they keep putting more and more farm equipment up closer and closer to the yurt’s present site, and I’d rather have a little more space thanks. Also, more shade would be nice.
