PULLMAN, WA – Flooding caused by beavers on a Whitman County farm have been resolved with help from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The agency reports that a pair of beavers moved into a stream on John Brown’s farm in January of last year. The busy beavers built six dams along 2000 feet of the stream. The ponds flooded Brown’s pastureland, killed trees and threatened his historic barn.
Fish and Wildlife teamed up with The Lands Council to install a flexible pond leveler through a dam.
The device regulates the water level behind the dam to drop the pond and lessen the flooding.
