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Town closes road for salamander crossing
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| March. 17, 2013
Posted on 03/17/2013 10:57:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
I cannot remember what crosses road in Southern Illinois- but evry year there is road closed in Shawnee Nat’l forrest for lizard crossing.
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posted on
03/17/2013 11:04:24 PM PDT
by
Nailbiter
To: Salamander
To: Nailbiter
The NPS closes the road to Dantes View in Death Valley each year due to Desert Tortises crossings.
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posted on
03/17/2013 11:20:24 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2013! Geaux, Pack, Geaux!)
To: Salamander
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posted on
03/17/2013 11:37:05 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: TaMoDee
Are they big or little Tortoises, I can see NPS not wanting to have cars get damaged by the big ones, or cars damging the little ones.
I am joshing - best that none of our slower moving critters get damaged
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posted on
03/17/2013 11:47:22 PM PDT
by
Nailbiter
To: shibumi; Brad's Gramma
YAY!!!
We hardly have any left here because the drivers just smash them with no regard up on the mountain where they cross.
It’s only a hundred foot span of road but *no*, people can’t slow down to avoid them for that puny amount of distance.
It’s not like they’re darting into traffic at incredible speeds.
You can easily swerve to miss them but people just don’t.
That spot is a scene of massive carnage every spring.
Many species of amphibians all cross there on their way down the mountain to the vernal breeding pools.
The mashed amphibians and all the mammal scavengers who venture out to eat the remains.
Heartless, soulless bastards.
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posted on
03/17/2013 11:49:19 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: Nailbiter
This time of the year we have those creepy little green Anole lizards that skitter everywhere and taunt the cat since they are on one side of the screen and she on the other. Everytime she manages to escape outside she brings one of them in so she has something to chase across the floor, catch and then throw into the air until it has met its demise.
I suppose I should warn her that she needs to stop lest the PETA and Lizard police come after her except that I absolutely cannot tolerate anything resembling a lizard or bug so maybe she thinks she’s helping me with the pest eradication.
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posted on
03/18/2013 12:09:46 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Salamander
Gussie Fink-Nottle! Is that you?
Mr. Fink-Nottle on the left.
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posted on
03/18/2013 3:29:24 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
To: Salamander
Gussie Fink-Nottle! Is that you?
Mr. Fink-Nottle on the left.
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posted on
03/18/2013 3:30:27 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
To: Dr. Sivana
Not bloody likely.
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posted on
03/18/2013 3:47:26 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: JoeProBono
I slow down for squirrels because I don't like to hear the whap, whap, whap of my wheels...but a salamamder??
Put a pipe under the road...it can be pushed right through by machine.
To: JoeProBono
They should give them little bicycles and spandex outfits. That way I wouldn't feel bad about squishing them.
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posted on
03/18/2013 5:13:32 AM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: Salamander
Not bloody likely.
Then, perhaps, you are the great-granddaughter of famous newt-fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle?
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posted on
03/18/2013 5:32:16 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
03/18/2013 5:46:29 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: BigCinBigD
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posted on
03/18/2013 5:49:50 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Dr. Sivana
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posted on
03/18/2013 5:51:52 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
In Bermuda, when those big toads are out looking for mates, there are thousands of them squished on the roads..the stink is awful...tourists, on the scooters, often skid on the slimy mess and crash
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posted on
03/18/2013 5:51:55 AM PDT
by
ken5050
("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
To: JoeProBono
Freaking insurance lobby...
To: JoeProBono
Joe...When we visited the hell hole called Mexico, we lived on the side of a mountain. These things came out at night and were climbing all over the place. We slept with the lights on.
The next day at breakfast, hubby was laughing that I had to have the lights on.
The two other hubbies smiled and confessed they and their "not so brave wives" slept with the lights on, too.
P.S. Never go to Mexico!!
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