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Whitman County Farmer Teams With WDFW to Deal With Flooding Caused by Beavers

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John Brown uses a canoe to traverse what used to be his barnyard. Photo Courtesy of John Brown

John Brown uses a canoe to traverse what used to be his barnyard. Photo Courtesy of John Brown

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.

Before and after: standing water in John Brown’s barnyard during flooding (left) and immediately after a pond leveler was installed (right) to mitigate the impacts of beaver dams – Photo courtesy of John Brown

The device regulates the water level behind the dam to drop the pond and lessen the flooding.

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