“Keith, why does Game and Fish build beaver dams?”
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department does build structures called beaver dam analogs. These structures function as beaver dams but do not have beaver actively building and repairing the structure. They work the same way beaver dams do by creating ponds, raising the water table underground, slowing floodwaters, improving streamside vegetation and catching sediment so that it does not dump into an important water source.
Keith Schoup Casper Region Habitat Biologist
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