؜Insight

Beavers that run out of food will look for new sources of food and sometimes cause conflict with humans by washing out culverts or flooding fields when establishing new territory.

How might we

provide/produce/protect food for beavers so they can continue to stay in the same location for longer.

source: Broadmoore wildlife sanctuary

؜Young trees are often consumed before they are mature enough to establish strong root systems or recover from damage. This prevents long-term regrowth of important shoreline vegetation such as quaking aspen and reduces the availability of larger woody material that North American beaver use for food. This makes them need to move habitats, possibly into more human-dense areas that can lead to conflicts/flooding.

؜Planting Precedents

؜Protecting Precedents

Sketches for Planting and protecting

Iterations for planting mechanism

We started with a simple cardboard model of the mechanism

We moved to 3d printing so we could test with a servo and a linear actuator

Then we added it to the base

؜Movement Precedent

؜Iteration process

Final Prototype

؜Next steps

1. ؜Finish the circuitry
2. ؜Do some material analysis on various biodegradable materials for the sapling cage
3. Get a functional movement prototype that can carry a large amount of weight

؜Thank you!

؜Insight: beavers that lack food will look for new sources of food and sometimes flood human property when establishing new territory.

how might we provide/produce/protect food for beavers so they can continue to stay in the same location for longer.

source: Broadmoore wildlife sanctuary

؜Protecting z

؜These are both good and cheap

A cage is great against larger animals but bugs and things and still eat away at the lower trunk

Putting a bag around the tree keeps it safe from most animals, but dedicated ones can get through

؜Planting

؜an innovative way to plant seeds is seed bombs

in nature one plant called the Erodium plant plants itself by drilling into the ground

an almost fully automated planting process is aerial seeding.

؜prototypes

Idea/Sketches

؜ways to get things into the ground Sammy

How have people/other animals solved for this problem in other context?