I'm pretty sure beavers were always at it on the back side of Carbuncle Pond and the Moosup River out Route 14 in western Coventry near the Connecticut border, and that's why the road in got flooded decades ago and the original parking lot is inaccessible. I'm not sure how much of the land around Carbuncle is public, but I think more is now than when I was a boy and it butts right up against the Trestle Trail. I always liked hiking and riding out there.