Some predict winter snowfall levels by observing the size and timing of muskrat lodge construction.
Common muskrat and American beaver use culm and rhizome material in lodge construction.
Muskrats feed on young shoots and rhizomes, and also cut mature culms for lodge construction.
Muskrat and beaver lodge construction may disperse living fragments of rhizome or culm base because some of the nest material remains wet.
Probably the most common large effect of other organisms is due to Ondatra (muskrat) activities in cutting and excavating rhizomes and culm bases for food and lodge construction.
Over the years, layer after layer of garbage was added, sometimes as much as 13 feet, to keep floors above the floodwaters, said Mansour Ndoye, an official at the Ministry of Urban Affairs, Lodging and Construction who helps run the Plan Jaxaay.
The possible threats have mainly been thought of as anthropogenic influences such as deforestation from lodging and fires, hunting, construction of roads and houses etc.
For example, lodging taxes, retail sales and construction tax revenues did not appear to suffer; only one of the three indicators used to measure economic health showed a decrease after the murder.
California started counting overtime after an eight-hour day, rather than a 40-hour week, though lawmakers there are now being bombarded with calls to exempt ski lodges, hospitals, construction sites and many other workplaces.
The project at White Pines was originally meant to be the construction of a lodge building.
The plan, carried on by the still-classified Bilateral Infrastructure Agreement signed in 1954, called for the construction of 25 new buildings with lodging for 1,200 soldiers, aiming to include all elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team and the Africom (US Africa Command).
