Chuck Attardo

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Colorado wildlife overpass cuts I-25 collisions as habitat reconnects

Leading CDOT's wildlife mitigation program

Interstate 25 near Colorado's Greenland exit split 39,000 acres of habitat, and for decades elk and pronghorn could not get across. The corridor averaged roughly one deer-vehicle crash per day in peak migration. Nine months after North America's largest wildlife overpass opened there, collisions have dropped 91 percent.

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Notable Quotes

"We're seeing pronghorn for the first time in decades cross over to the west side of I-25 because of the bridge."

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"They pay for themselves in about 15 years because of all those accidents that they prevent, and so why wouldn't you do more of these?"

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