This particular mound was about one-foot in diameter when first observed in 1978. Corn Crib Lake Shore's corn crib is a snow fence enclosure filled with corn. The corn is available to any animals, such as squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, skunks, fox, field mice, white footed mice, meadow vole and especially deer. The Lake Shore P.T.A. makes an annual contribution to stock the crib during the fall and winter months. A marsh is a wetland covered with low growing emergent vegetation such as cattails, or rushes, or other grasslike plants.
Bogs are usually wetter than marshes, and have thicker beds of peat and mats of floating vegetation.
Swamps by contrast contain many trees and shrubs. Of all the ecosystems available for human use, marshes are the most productive. But, because of excessive exploitation, they are most often destroyed. Marshes are also important as major natural food-controlled systems, as sources for recharging underground watercourses, and as huge filters that remove pollutants from streams that flow into them. This aspen grove is directly related to the marsh you just passed.