Photos by Richard Fox - 18th October 2006

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Images 1 to 22 show the fitting of one-way badger gates in a real sett in the village of Weir near Bacup on the 18th October 2006.
This work was authorised and licensed by English Nature under Badger Licence No 20062548.

Richard Fox 1 Badger Exclusion Gate	Richard Fox 2 Gate in place on the verge entrance	Richard Fox 3 Laying out plastic netting around the verge entrance	Richard Fox 4 Cutting the plastic netting to shape

Richard Fox 5 Mixing concrete to secure around the gates	Richard Fox 6 Plastic netting to reinforce the concrete around the entrance	Richard Fox 7 Concreting over the plastic netting	Richard Fox 8 Making sure concrete has a good finish

Richard Fox 9 Verge-side badger gate concreted into position	Richard Fox 10 Making sure the gate swings freely	Richard Fox 11 Gate in place under the shed entrance	Richard Fox 12 Gate, concrete blocks and plastic netting around the shed entrance

Richard Fox 13 Concreting over the netting under the hut entrance	Richard Fox 14 Hut entrance partly concreted in	Richard Fox 15 Hut entrance concreting nearly finished	Richard Fox 16 Making sure the gate swings freely

Richard Fox 17 Finishing off the concreting of the hut entrance	Richard Fox 18 Tying the verge-side gate open (for the first couple of days)	Richard Fox 19 The verge-side gate tied open	Richard Fox 20 Tying the hut-side gate open (for the first couple of days)

Richard Fox 21 The hut-side gate tied open	Richard Fox 22 Artificial concrete covered with a layer of natural soil and a few leaves

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