Although I've never seen a beaver on Mom's farm, I'm fascinated with them. The damage we saw in recent years was something we never saw as kids. My brothers hunted and trapped in these coulees a lot, and my brother Carl said he's only seen beaver dams in the last few years. He said beavers have built a huge dam recently in the area pictured below. I'm excited to go back and see it next month, and I'll update this with a picture of it. A neighbor killed two beavers, trying to

The farm I grew up on had teepee rings in the pasture. We had no idea how old they were, or which native tribes had made them. I've read the Three Affiliated Tribes from the area (the combined tribes of the Hidatsa, the Mandan, and the Arikara) have said the rings were there before they came to the land. Some call them "stone circles," used for ceremonial purposes, believing that the local natives used pegs instead of rocks to hold down the edges of their teepee (or tipi) ski