Simply make a law requiring all Elk, Deer and Bear to cross on the Northernmost bridge and all other varmints to cross at the Southernmost bridge. Cats can cross at either location. What’s the big deal? Utopia is just a couple of laws away.
How absurd. The state is broke.
If they are going to charge drivers tolls for every new bride WA builds, I think the animals need to cough up something for these.
actually a good idea. hitting a bear or elk at 60mph is no fun, and fatal on a bike.
Cheaper than light rail from LA to SF I'm sure. Maybe it's shovel ready.
There are already overpasses over I-90. If the animals want to use them, be my guest. Do they think they are going to use them in higher numbers if they are landscape?
I wonder if the overpasses will be designed to accommodate OWS wildlife?
“Gene diversity” amongst deer, elk, puma, and bear living on either side of that road?
Well, gag me with a cliche!
The concept is pure agency pseudo-scientific bafflegab, a poor substitute for pure science.
De-fund ‘em!
How could this possibly work? The predators will simply hang out near the overpass, waiting for their prey to cross over, and then pounce. Easy pickin’s! On a two dimensional plane, there are countless ways to escape. But a bridge is essentially one dimensional, so it’s like cows in a chute, being loaded onto a cattle truck. Nowhere to run.
Do they really think that animals are going to travel out of their way to go across a bridge?
Now the Democratic Party is trying to facilitate sexual promiscuity among animals, too!
This gives a whole new meaning to the riddle, “Why did the cougar cross the road?”