Old pipes or creating tunnels as paths for smaller creatures.

What's happening! Could old pipes be used as tunnels for wildlife under rock piles, brush piles and other places that are dense. Could you all show me an example of a path that help smaller creatures enter my gardens? I wanna draw in toads, snakes, bugs, field mice and voles day in and day out. Could old pieces of clay pot be created as a tunnel for wildlife. If there are any examples of underground tunnels or old pipes used as crossings for wild creatures to enter into our gardens, please let me know. Take care!

This seems like a neat line of inquiry, but I'm unclear what obstacle the proposed tunnel is meant to span.

I've seen places where the state government put wildlife tunnels under highways to lessen the risk of animal-car collisions -- same idea on a larger scale.

I'm talking about wider pipes large or small to help smaller creatures enter safely under rocks, logs, brush piles or even dense areas of shrub. I'm trying to help snakes, toads, rodents and insects cross safely into my gardens year in and year out. Many creatures get run over by cars every day, and nobody give a rip about it. I'd love more examples of them if anybody did help smaller creatures get by safely without getting run over from the streets, lawn mowers and stuff.

My land is literally marked by deer paths which help the other animals to find their way.

From my observation, the deer like to use our open gates and the existing roads to travel where they are going.

Maybe in an urban setting, the old pipes and tunnels might help if these already resist.

Making use of something new or added will make the animal afraid rather than helping.  My observation is that the animals don't like things that are new to them.

I believe that someone at Wheaton Labs posted a picture of a trail that some animals had used.  I doubt that I would ever find it doing a search.

I asked on Pinterest and found these:


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I hope other folks will add pictures of what you are looking for.

Didn't know paths can be used for turtles and birds. Could the tunnels be used under streets to prevent road kills and fatalities and help reptiles and other creatures get by? There's a snake path at La Rue Hills in Illinois that help snakes migrate safely from one destination to another every spring. Could pipes or tunnels work for snakes as well?

I have done this by accident. Whenever I lay concrete I place a 4” pipe under it. This makes future projects easier. If I find myself installing an electric or water line and am blocked by a driveway, sidewalk, etc., I can normally use the pipe I have in place without having to disturb the concrete.   Of course, several times I have realized that smaller creatures have made use of my planning.

It's not really tunnels/entrances, in that they aren't intended to lead from place to place, but you might look through some of the PEP Animal Care badge-bits related to wild animals. This one on creating toad habitat has a lot of examples that are sort of adjacent to the tunnel idea: https://permies.com/wiki/108200/pep-animal-care/Create-toad-habitats-PEP-BB

Also, done haphazardly, it would be easy to install tunnels that fill with water, so anyone making these kinds of things should remember drainage.

That take me back to the rock pile habitat where the pipes are use for entrances and exits from shelter. Was that pipe for penguins being used in Oceania or somewhere as I saw earlier?