THE PILGRIM
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Is it possible that Snow Geese are smarter than Deer?
Tales from the Faulkner Files: Vehicle vs deer
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Leaving Jasper NP on the way to Lake Louise a few days ago, we were told by the tour director that there were so many deer, elk, bear, car collisions, that they put up short fences along the roadway and built overpasses every couple of miles to funnel wildlife over the highway.
Well, nature being what it is, the wolves caught on quickly. They then waited in the shadows close to the bridges and pounced on the wildlife crossing.
Leaving Jasper NP on the way to Lake Louise a few days ago, we were told by the tour director that there were so many deer, elk, bear, car collisions, that they put up short fences along the roadway and built overpasses every couple of miles to funnel wildlife over the highway.
Well, nature being what it is, the wolves caught on quickly. They then waited in the shadows close to the bridges and pounced on the wildlife crossing.
Deer and elk are hard on cars. But, my wife spend a summer after college working as a tour guide in Yellowstone and then the winter as a waitress in West Yellowstone. One of the women she lived with was from back east somewhere and while going down a road where the snow was about 8' high on both sides she came around a curve and met a bull Bison. Major thud. The funny part is her insurance company didn't believe her until she got the local sheriff to write a letter say that she had in fact collided with a Bison. Elk, moose and horses are bad because they are high enough to come across the hood and take out the cab. Full grown cattle and of course bison a a serious hunk of thud. But, then a kid I worked with stacking hay during my High school summers hit a full grown hog with a 57 Plymouth and ended up high centered on a squealing pig that smelled like someone was cooking breakfast.
