ALBANY — “Why am I whispering?” asks Tin Mountain’s Heather McKendry to no one in particular, after quietly telling the small group touring the Rockwell Sanctuary about how beavers change the landscape and how they make a new pond.
We’ve just seen a baby beaver — called a kit — slip into the water on the nearby shore and swim across the small pond. It dives underwater and we lose sight of it, but McKendry urges us to keep watching.
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