Oko Napchinyunka

Monday, Apr 13, to Sunday, Apr 19, 2026: high 80, low 22, gust 50 mph, moisture 0.02"

Here’s a picture taken this morning from the drone looking down at Turtle Pond. On the pond, near the middle, are two ducks that show up as specks of white. The pond is in the waterway that flows across the sanctuary from south to north, which is bottom to top in the photo. Along both sides of the waterway are mowed trails that are sixty inches wide. The one on the west (left) has two switch-backs. The one on the east (right) is crosscut by a trail that comes from the house and ends with a turnaround beside the pond. The narrow line that extends across the frame, near the bottom, is an well-used deer trail. On the west side, at least three north-south deer trails that connect with the mowed trail can be seen. On the east side, there is one obvious north-south deer trail that connects with the mowed trail just beyond the bottom of the frame. The vegetation around and beyond the northern tip of the pond are cattails. Before the sanctuary was fenced in 2010 to keep cattle out, there were no cattails around Turtle Pond.