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An osprey lands at a nest on a pole along Highway 12 near Naches on Monday. Ospreys in the area have become a much more common sight in the last 20 years, following the 1978-1980 construction of Interstate 82. The quarries dug by the State Department of Transportation to provide fill for the highway project were later filled with water and turned into fishing ponds, many of them now stocked with trout by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish are a main food source for the ospreys, and in order to keep them from building their nests on power poles, Pacific Power has constructed this pole nest and numerous others like it in areas inhabited by the ospreys.

MAGGIE SCHMIDT/Yakima Herald-Republic
An osprey lands at a nest on a pole along Highway 12 near Naches on Monday. Ospreys in the area have become a much more common sight in the last 20 years, following the 1978-1980 construction of Interstate 82. The quarries dug by the State Department of Transportation to provide fill for the highway project were later filled with water and turned into fishing ponds, many of them now stocked with trout by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish are a main food source for the ospreys, and in order to keep them from building their nests on power poles, Pacific Power has constructed this pole nest and numerous others like it in areas inhabited by the ospreys.

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