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Keeping It Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads

Photo Gallery for Using Gravel to Unblock Desert-Tortoise Culverts



close-up of a desert tortoise
Caltrans photo
The desert tortoise.

photo of culverts with gravel placed up to lip of openings
Caltrans photo
Turtle crossing culverts under roadway. Gravel was placed over the large rip-rap boulders to

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