A recently-built wildlife overpass in Utah is helping deer, bears, mountain lions, and other animals safely cross a dangerous major highway.
The Utah Division of Wildlife delivered the good news on November 19 via a Facebook post, which features video footage of the busy bridge.
“It’s working!” the enthusiastic post reads. “As you can see, the second year of this overpass has been successful at helping wildlife safely migrate over busy Interstate 80 and helping motorists be much safer as well.”
The bridge was constructed a few years ago to enhance the safety of both animals and drivers. Known as the Parleys Canyon Wildlife Overpass, the structure came as part of a project to widen the interstate below it.
The Division of Wildlife concluded the announcement by reminding people that the bridge is meant for wild animals only.
“Please keep off of this overpass,” the post urges readers. “Thanks!”
Lady Freethinker applauds this effort to reduce the number of wildlife casualties caused by human activity.
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This is so cool & like many others who commented, we NEED these overpasses in every single state!
I love how the engineers made this very attractive to the animals – even the bobcat sharpening his/her claws on the tree trunk seems to appreciate the extra effort that was put into this project!
How excellent! Now we need hundreds more of these wildlife overpasses! I would be happy to pay taxes for these!
Thank you Utah Division of Wildlife. Sure hope others will follow.
We are grateful to Utah for building the bridge to protect wildlife as well as motorists! We hope to see more of these bridges across the country!!
We need this in uk l been talking about this for years, the problem is the uk GOV no good they would not build anything
for the animals to keep them safe.
Thank you Utah Division of Wildlife please send this to the usless uk gov to tell them how it saves Animal lives.
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Awesome! May they make many of these in every state. 18,000 deer got hit on the highway in WI last year.
c’est juste formidable, très beau. Il y a encore quelques véritables humains sur cette planète et ça j’adore. Merci à eux.
I absolutely love this. Finally something positive humans do to help animals. It has saved so many lives. Thank you Jesus!
Thanku for helping our 4 footed furry friends.
So wonderful to see what man can accomplish for the sake of animal safety.