No doubt you already solved the mystery:not creatures, but logs harvested and laid out beside a road, waiting to be picked up.Dryden was the "Forest Capital of Canada" in the year 2000, during which 2000 trees were planted in twenty-one northwestern Ontario communities, andthe Boreal Forest Website was started.An interesting article in the March 2001 "Logging and Sawmilling Journal" is about a lumber company in the area that is involved in reforestation: Skene Lumber.