Colorado wildlife overpass cuts animal collisions by 91%

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA wildlife overpass in Colorado has cut vehicle-animal collisions by ninety-one percent, the Guardian reports. Elk, bear and frogs have all used it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFrogs. Somebody sat there and watched a frog attempt a highway crossing, and now it's a success story.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt connects thirty-nine thousand acres of habitat. So we're giving it Animal of the Day, as a group award.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe title is Most Improved Merge, Interstate Division.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorStat line. Two hundred nine feet by two hundred feet, built for pronghorn and elk, and a ninety-one percent drop against a goal of ninety.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt beat its own target by one point. Overachiever. I don't trust it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd a pronghorn was recorded crossing the highway for the first time in thirty years, according to reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThirty years. I'm genuinely moved, Hank. A pronghorn waited for a proper bridge. He had standards, and I wish I did.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd like to thank the bridge, the biologists, and the elk who didn't ask for a refund.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'd like to thank the pronghorn for taking thirty years to merge.

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