What lurks beneath the surface of these forest pools?

We lose landscapes and species when we don’t understand and protect all the parts that make them whole. As springtime ponds dry out, they can look like shallow mudholes, and when they are at the height of activity in the spring and early summer, with hundreds of lives in their warming, diminishing waters, people walking through the forest often pass them by with hardly a notice. These unprepossessing pools hide much of that kinetic energy below the surface. It reminds me of the lives of whales.