When I was growing up as a kid I lived on a farm in southwestern Michigan, we had what we called
"40 acre river bottom", that was some of the best land, I remember set in watching Beaver cut trees downed, building up their dams, and their lodges. I never did hunt deer there, I used to set and watch them, along with the turkey. It was a great place to be for a 12-year-old.
When I hunt some areas in Minnesota here, some areas remind me of that river bottom. I have a painting that has a birch line, that looks like where the Beaver use to cut down birch in my river bottom.
Took my wife back there to show her the farm, but 40 years of life, kinda had everything overgrown, and the sad thing was, no one was taking care of the river bottom, they just let it go. Could a purchased the river bottom and the house for about 200,000, sometimes, memories are best left, as memories.
Thanks for sharing George
On the river bottom, we had a boundary of a river on one side, and a creek on the other, similar to the one in your photos.