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[primroselane]

Specialist Steven Cavanaugh of the Army, who had survived 300 missions in Iraq, was critically injured in December when his vehicle hit a moose. Specialist Cavanaugh died Dec. 6.

Wildlife-related crashes are a growing problem on rural roads around the country. The accidents increased 50 percent from 1990 to 2004.

Each year, about 200 people are killed in as many as two million wildlife-related crashes at a cost of more than $8 billion.

Pennsylvania has the most vehicle-wildlife crashes. Drivers there struck nearly 97,000 deer in the last half of 2005 and first half of 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/us...185&ei=5087%0A

In my area, high fences along highways would help a lot. All the land is private property. If there was an immediate, full depreciation write-off, high fences would show up in a hurry.

[tomstractormag]

I guess you can't just keep developing willy nilly and not expect this. I live in PA and see the problem first hand. Create an ever shrinking natural habitat and the wildlife has to be somewhere.
Not to mention all this developement is very unsustainable. Keep moving farther from where the jobs are building unsustainable houses.
What will people do when they can't afford the energy to heat (and cool) these McMansions and drive 50 or more miles to work every day?
Tom

[hillsidedigger]

High fences along both sides of highways with wildlife underpasses is very expensive but still is needed in many places.

Drive more slowly thru known wildlife crossings particularly at night. Do not overdrive your distance of vision.

[Wolf mom]

Some animals won't use underpasses. As backwards as AZ is in some things, Arizona is aware of this problem & is trying different alternatives.

People need to be more aware through education that they are driving in a migratory route or habitat. Just stupid, self centered drivers. We have a lot of elk here & you just need to be super alert & drive slower that normal at times when they're moving. It is awsome to see a herd bounding across the road or just grazing off to the side.

There's also some sort of thing you can put on your vehicle that creates some sort of a noise to warn animals.

My step mom was in a terrible accident when she swerved so she wouldn't hit a dog that bounded into the road. Truck hit her, threw her car into the dog. Dog killed anyway. But, then, she was in a hurry to get to work....