Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Possums and armadillos would never use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I wonder what signage looks like to direct the wildlife to the bridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Great spot for a tree stand..... LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 If they really wanted and cared about doing the 'right thing', they would have never built a highway thru the middle of the woods. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I never saw a deer with an atlas. Wonder how they know to use it. Humans jaywalk and understand traffic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 What about the "Deer Crossing" signs? If the deer could read they'd go somewhere else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Deer actually learn what routes are successful and which are not. They altered their tradition migration routes in Europe to avoid the mine fields of the Iron Curtain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Looks like a good spot for a tree stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I am not an evolutionist, but I understand Darwin theory of survival of the fittest/smartest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Millions and millions spent on that 'ecoduct' and those pesky animals are still going to cross the road where they want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack davis Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 They got some of those in North East Nevada The fences kind Of guide them toward it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 20 minutes ago, jack davis said: They got some of those in North East Nevada The fences kind Of guide them toward it Like others have said, sounds like a good place for a deer stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack davis Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Yeah but there's no trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 AS a former Park Ranger I can attest to the fact that these greenway corridors do in fact save a lot of wildlife. This concept was unheard of when most highways were constructed, but research over the decades has indicated that the practice is sound. Think of it this way. More deer saved equals more deer to hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack davis Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I've always wondered weather it was to protect the deer and elk or the cars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, jack davis said: I've always wondered weather it was to protect the deer and elk or the cars Both. Hitting one of them can be fatal to driver and passengers too. Unlike hitting a dog, deer and elk stand tall, and when hit, most of their body is upended back into the windshield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 At first, I thought the photo was maybe an environmental proposal. But there are lots of examples here: https://www.google.com/search?q=netherlands+ecoduct&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS740US740&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitiYGZptX2AhWTQc0KHZxGAe4Q_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1396&bih=748&dpr=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 40 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: AS a former Park Ranger I can attest to the fact that these greenway corridors do in fact save a lot of wildlife. This concept was unheard of when most highways were constructed, but research over the decades has indicated that the practice is sound. Think of it this way. More deer saved equals more deer to hunt. And less car deer accidents. The insurance companies in Mi have a intense hatred for the white tailed deer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 My flying for the Civil Air Patrol often took me to rural airports in the middle of the night. Many of them are just a strip of asphalt or sod, and the only lighting would be one that illuminated the windsock. Crops or tall grass were sometimes at the runway perimeter - maybe 20-30 feet away. The procedure was to "drag" the runway before landing, which is to fly really low with all lights on to drive any critters that might be on the runway back into the weeds. It was always kind of eerie to see those eyes reflecting back by the landing light as I flew by. Taking off, the procedure was conducted by taxiing slowly along the full length of the runway. One pass down, one back, turn 180 degrees and immediately take off. Still, lots of eyes on me from the perimeter. On one such take off, things were going great until a deer bolted in front of me just as I pulled the nose off the ground. Fortunately I got just enough altitude where I passed over her hind end by only a few feet. Had she started her gallop from the weeds one or two seconds later, things would have gotten really messy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 2 hours ago, jack davis said: They got some of those in North East Nevada The fences kind Of guide them toward it Is that the reason that I80 is no longer is paved with rabbit pelts? In 1971 I drove I80 from CA to Ft. Riley KS. I have vivid memories of the thousands of rabbit pelts paving the hwy. About 8 years ago The wife & I drove to Elko to buy a horse and I didn't see one animal smashed into the road. Caltrans allocated some of the Obama 2009 Porkulus. bill funds to widen VASCO rd in Alameda & CCCo & build critter underpasses to save newts & badgers during mating season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 That could lead to tense moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack davis Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I don't know what happened to all the Jack rabbits But we sure don't See them Like we used to Even the coyotes have been down the last couple years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 We can help our insect friends too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Devil Dale Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 14 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: I wonder what signage looks like to direct the wildlife to the bridge? Most likely they are 10' chain link leader fences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 When I worked in Charlotte on the Light Rail we had several deer hit along the tracks of this particular stretch of tracks. Transportation put up deer crossing signs to remind the train operators to be on the lookout, as if they could stop 200,000 ponds of train to keep from hitting deer. Anyway, this moron from NYC actually asked why we don’t put the signs up elsewhere to make the cross at the grade crossings or somewhere else. This guy was as dumb as a brick. Anyway, we hatched a plan to make pictographs in “deer-speak” to tell the deer to watch out for the trains. One guy made up these weird elaborate signs and he came up with an excuse that Wayside didn’t have the money to install than and he needed Manny, the moron, to help get the funds from the Transportation Manager. To stand in the hall and listen to Manny request funding for the “deer-speak” signs to the Trans. Manager and as luck would have it, the General Manager was absolutely priceless. We couldn’t contain ourselves we were laughing so hard. Needlessly to say Manny hilariously made an ass of himself. Believe or not, last I heard, that stupid son of a (bleep) is a Director of Operations in Chicago. How fitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 wonder how many deer are hit on that stretch of hyway every year - you can build a bridge and plant chit to make them want to go there but they tened to go wherever they please in the end , northern MN has crossing signs for them for years but they seldom use them - i see a lot of new dead ones every day 0 but then the crows , eagles , coyotes , and such eat well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 15 hours ago, jack davis said: Yeah but there's no trees Based on the shadows, the trees are tall and narrow in profile -- means they're most likely evergreens (e.g., pines). Using the shadow of the car on the road as a guide, I'd guess the trees on the near side of the overpass to be somewhere around fifty feet tall or so. Good line of sight in several directions, a chokepoint on a movement corridor = good spot for a tree stand. On the legal side of it, IIRC most places that have this type of arrangement have game laws that prohibit such shenanigans -- not really sporting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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