Comments on: Bobcats and Deer May Get their Own Traffic Lane http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html Independent. Conservative. Unruly. Fri, 25 May 2012 23:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mrfixit http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html#comment-99942 mrfixit Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:52:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats-and-deer-may-get-their-own-traffic-lane/#comment-99942 <p>I was listening to morning radio on my way to work and heard about this. A caller said that for his recent college theisis, he studied the proposal, and found four crossings that allow wildlife to move between these areas. He named them off but I don't remenber where they are. He said that he actuallty observed movement at these crossings before he would consider them as a viable crossing. The wildlife is using these four points now. It will take years before a new crossing will become "naturalized" to the crossing.</p> I was listening to morning radio on my way to work and heard about this. A caller said that for his recent college theisis, he studied the proposal, and found four crossings that allow wildlife to move between these areas. He named them off but I don’t remenber where they are. He said that he actuallty observed movement at these crossings before he would consider them as a viable crossing. The wildlife is using these four points now. It will take years before a new crossing will become “naturalized” to the crossing.

]]> By: mythusmage http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html#comment-99941 mythusmage Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:07:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats-and-deer-may-get-their-own-traffic-lane/#comment-99941 <p>As Ann pointed out above, special road crossing for wildlife are already in use. Mostly tunnels under the roadway, but some bridges over too.</p> <p>Animals adapt to such things quickly. Those that use the bridge survive and have kids. Those who don't, don't. In a few generations you can expect the deer at least to use the wildlife bridge in perference to anything else. Though I do wonder if a broad underpass for exclusive wildlife use wouldn't be better.</p> As Ann pointed out above, special road crossing for wildlife are already in use. Mostly tunnels under the roadway, but some bridges over too.

Animals adapt to such things quickly. Those that use the bridge survive and have kids. Those who don’t, don’t. In a few generations you can expect the deer at least to use the wildlife bridge in perference to anything else. Though I do wonder if a broad underpass for exclusive wildlife use wouldn’t be better.

]]> By: Ann http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html#comment-99940 Ann Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:49:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats-and-deer-may-get-their-own-traffic-lane/#comment-99940 <p>There are several of these bridges already in use in New Jersey. So much for innovation. </p> There are several of these bridges already in use in New Jersey. So much for innovation.

]]> By: helpunderdog http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html#comment-99939 helpunderdog Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:20:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats-and-deer-may-get-their-own-traffic-lane/#comment-99939 <p>I think it's a wonderful idea - some compassion for those innocent beings who are totally at our mercy.<br /> Think of all of the accidents caused by motorists hitting innocent wildlife - it's a win-win situation. </p> I think it’s a wonderful idea – some compassion for those innocent beings who are totally at our mercy.
Think of all of the accidents caused by motorists hitting innocent wildlife – it’s a win-win situation.

]]> By: Kelly http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html#comment-99938 Kelly Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:52:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats-and-deer-may-get-their-own-traffic-lane/#comment-99938 <p>The last time I drove on the 405, I was more worried about the crazy drivers (inbred or not), than I was about Bambi vainly trying to cross for a rendezvous with Wiley E. Coyote.</p> <p>Now I have visions of the Tazmanian Devil as the crossing guard.</p> <p>This is going to be an interesting day...</p> The last time I drove on the 405, I was more worried about the crazy drivers (inbred or not), than I was about Bambi vainly trying to cross for a rendezvous with Wiley E. Coyote.

Now I have visions of the Tazmanian Devil as the crossing guard.

This is going to be an interesting day…

]]> By: artgal http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats_and_deer_may_get_their.html#comment-99937 artgal Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:17:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/10/bobcats-and-deer-may-get-their-own-traffic-lane/#comment-99937 <p>"A connection between the habitats adjacent to the 405 would help animals flee when disease or fire affects them on either side, Edelman said, and avoid isolating them in a way that leads to inbreeding"</p> <p>Is there going to be someone there to supervise the animals so they know how to get to the proposed path to escape fire and disease? Will a big directory with a 'You Are Here' posting - like we see at malls - be built for our animal friends to sniff/read? Will there also be a bill in the making at some point to offer tax-payer funded insurance policies to our friends in the wild? A burnt nest or smoke damage in a cave really sucks. </p> <p>Geez, I don't think we should worry so much about the inbreeding occurring w/i the animal kingdom. Seems that is what produced the 'humans' thinking up this crap at The California Dept. of Transportation. Maybe they're in need of a special path.</p> “A connection between the habitats adjacent to the 405 would help animals flee when disease or fire affects them on either side, Edelman said, and avoid isolating them in a way that leads to inbreeding”

Is there going to be someone there to supervise the animals so they know how to get to the proposed path to escape fire and disease? Will a big directory with a ‘You Are Here’ posting – like we see at malls – be built for our animal friends to sniff/read? Will there also be a bill in the making at some point to offer tax-payer funded insurance policies to our friends in the wild? A burnt nest or smoke damage in a cave really sucks.

Geez, I don’t think we should worry so much about the inbreeding occurring w/i the animal kingdom. Seems that is what produced the ‘humans’ thinking up this crap at The California Dept. of Transportation. Maybe they’re in need of a special path.

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