Wiki Culverts: Invisible Infrastructure/Visible Trail

Culverts are the connectors of ecosystems that sometimes have large animals like salmon, but most often times life that goes unnoticed because it is too microscopic to observe with human senses. Culverts are functional for infrastructure by providing run off and drainage, yet they are an epitome of lack of care towards life that humans cannot sense. This is a project beginning from one small scientific study in Northern Vermont. The study was a geomorphic survey conducted in 2010 & 2011 by Carmi Consulting, an environmental consulting company founded and led by my cousin B. O'Shea. During the summer of 2010 and 2011, a group of us worked together, surveying all culverts in the Missisquoi water basin. Over the course of the two year survey roughly 1,200 culverts were measured, observed, and photographed. From those photographs two were uploaded to Wikipedia's "culvert" page (by B. O'Shea). Since then, they have been disseminated in hundreds of articles, mostly relating to environmental concerns.