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This is the former Indiana bat habitat. The loggers cut it down and used it as a culvert. Actually using a hollow tree like this as a culvert is really old school--you don't see culverting like this much anymore. But the reason it is such an excellent culvert is that it is hollow, the same reason it was excellent bat habitat. See the holes up at the top of the tree. We found at least 5 or 6 culverts like this--all recently placed. The bats are about to return with their lowest body fat ratio. They are loyal to areas they have habitated in the past.