Animal guard for protecting a bank of a body of water

Abstract

The embodiments and methods of the invention provide for an effective protection of a bank of a body of water that reduces or eliminates the erosion effect of animal-burrowing below the mudline and behind the bank. An exemplary embodiment includes a guard that includes a top cross member and a plurality of spaced apart rods welded or otherwise attached to the top cross member. An intermediate cross member can also be welded or otherwise attached to the rods between the top member and a bottom end of the rods. The rods are spaced apart to have a specific clearance that prevents adult animals, such as muskrats from passing through the guard. Particularly, the spacing is such that the shoulder width of muskrats is too large to fit through adjacent rods. Plural guards can be driven into the bank side-by-side along the body of water to create a wall of guards.

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