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WILLIAMSBURG — During his 25 years at William & Mary, Randy Chambers has seen plenty of dead turtles and raccoons lying along a stretch of Jamestown Road that bisects Lake Matoaka and College Creek.

More recently, Chambers, the associate chair of biology and director of the Keck Environmental Field Laboratory at W&M, found three otters killed by cars at the same spot. He began to wonder: could there be a safer way for wildlife to travel between the two bodies of water?

A male otter was captured swimming in a pond on the William & Mary campus. (Cheryl Leu/William & Mary)

That question kicked off a team effort to create a sturdy wooden ramp that has helped amphibians, reptiles and mammals find a culvert — a four-sided drainage structure — that

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