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Where are Wisconsin's Wildlife Overpasses?
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:05:10
Publish Date: 2020-12-14 11:45:00
Description: What is a wildlife overpass, or underpass, and does Wisconsin have any? Why or why not? Valid questions, to be certain, and the Masked Biologist has a few answers for us. Recently I saw an article from Smithsonian Magazine about a wildlife overpass in Utah that is getting significant use from a variety of wildlife species much earlier than expected. This is cause for celebration for local wildlife and road authorities in Utah, for certain. It has gotten quite a bit of attention lately because this wildlife overpass has motion sensing cameras, usually called game cameras, trail cams or trap cameras, in place to record numbers and species of animals putting it to use. They put together a brief video and posted it on Facebook, titled Parley’s Canyon Wildlife Overpass 2020 . You can watch a montage of creatures trotting across the overpass, some clearly less comfortable than others. Bobcats and coyotes, black bears, deer and moose make their way past the cameras—even porcupine and marmots
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