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Keeping It Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads

Photo Gallery for "False Attraction" Gets Beavers to Build Dams Away from Fish-Passage Culverts



Photo of worker standing next to mostly drained stream-bottom after installation of posts into bottom leaving aprox 1 foot protruding
ODOT photo
Construction of a beaver diversion structure upstream of the culvert. The diversion device is used to entice beavers to construct their dams upstream

Photo of a beaver
ODOT photo
The beaver is a master of dam construction.

Updated: 12/12/2012
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