Living with beavers
On Nov. 5, 2020 the Lands Council installed two 4-inch pipes through a beaver dam on Linda Jovanovich's Palouse property. The pipes, known broadly as flow-mitigation devices, will allow Jovanovich to live alongside the large rodents.
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Water pours over a beaver dam on Nov. 5, 2020, in the Palouse. Upstream and just out of sight of this photo was a larger, 6-foot-tall dam.
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A beaver footprint as seen on the Palouse Nov. 5, 2020.
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A beaver lodge as seen on the Palouse Nov. 5, 2020. Three or four beavers live in the lodge and will spend the winter there. The pond water, created by a 6-foot-tall dam, submerges the lodge's entrances and keeps the beavers safe from predators.
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Water pours through several small breaches in a beaver dam on the Palouse, Nov. 5, 2020. The small breaks lowered the pond about a foot, allowing the installation of two 4-inch pipes which will keep the pond level low enough to avoid killing trees, but high enough to give the beavers a place to live.
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The 45-degree slant seen here on Nov. 5, 2020, is a telltale sign of beaver chewing.
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Chris Bachman, the wildlife director for the Lands Council, talks to Linda Jovanovich on Nov. 5, 2020. Jovanovich lives on 7 acres on the Palouse and wants to coexist with beavers. Bachman is standing next to a chicken wire cage, in which two 4-inch pipes were placed. The pipes then shunted water through the beaver dam, keeping the pond level low enough for human and Castor canadensis to coexist.
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Chris Bachman, the wildlife director for the Lands Council, stands next to a pipe that is shunting water through a beaver dam on the Palouse on Nov. 5, 2020.
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Chris Bachman, the wildlife director for the Lands Council, and Ben Goldfarb, the author of “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter,” build a flow-mitigation device
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