Growing efforts to add wildlife over and underpasses along a large section of Interstate 70 are gaining steam in the High Country. The goal is to make that stretch of interstate safer for both drivers and animals. According to Rocky Mountain Wild, I-70 is one ...
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Curious Nature: Add Wild I-70 Audio Tour to your podcast list
By: Erica Prather, Vail Daily News August 4, 2018 For more than a decade, a team including biologists from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service and environmental nonprofit Rocky Mountain Wild has studied the movements of wildlife on Interstate ...
Highway overpasses successful at curbing wildlife/vehicle collisions
By: Christie Greene, Canyon Courier November 30, 4:40 pm The sun was warm as we gathered on Vail Pass last July. Paige Singer, a biologist for Rocky Mountain Wild, and Lisi Lohre, Citizen Science intern for the Denver Zoo, handed out hardhats and bright orange...