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From left, Woodbury Preserve caretaker Jared Genzer, Dave Dunlap and Drew Reed of the Wyoming Wetlands Society work to place a 12-inch-wide pipe into an opening in the beaver dam on Cache Creek in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on June 29, 2012. The pipe will allow water to flow through the dam and out of the fields that have been flooded on the Woodbury Preserve. Genzer hopes to get the water level down 12 inches with the installation of this pipe and five 6-inch-wide pipes that have already been put in. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Jaclyn Borowski)