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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWonderful news. California is building the world's largest wildlife crossing.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-largest-wildlife-crossing-will-help-animals-walk-safely-over-a-busy-california-freeway-180984206/
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Wonderful news. California is building the world's largest wildlife crossing. (Original Post)
1WorldHope
Apr 2024
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California also has the smallest wildlife crossing - Underpass or tunnel, call it what you want
Brother Buzz
Apr 2024
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Brother Buzz
(38,098 posts)1. California also has the smallest wildlife crossing - Underpass or tunnel, call it what you want
A $14,000 WILDLIFE CROSSING WAS constructed in 1995 as a six-inch tunnel to allow frogsnot toads, despite the projects nameto circumvent the newly constructed Pole Line Road overpass in Davis, California.
https://localwiki.org/davis/Toad_Tunnel
montanacowboy
(6,369 posts)2. We have a huge crossing
in Washington state bridging I-90. It's a great thing for wildlife. We are supposed to get more of them.
maxsolomon
(35,467 posts)5. but this is the largest "of it's kind".
dunno what that means, but the 1-90 crossing always makes me happy when I go under it.
ripcord
(5,553 posts)3. Hopefully it isn't the same people doing High Speed Rail
keithbvadu2
(40,782 posts)4. Make sure that dirt bikes cannot get over it.