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Sounds like a great idea. One of the many factors increasing tick populations in Canada are roads. They subdivide forested areas and migration paths for deer wh
by agentultra 5y ago
Sounds like a great idea. One of the many factors increasing tick populations in Canada are roads. They subdivide forested areas and migration paths for deer which are the primary hosts for deer ticks. Which means deer stay closer together and so do the ticks. Along with the warmer climate it's turning into an epidemic.
It may not be perfect but starting to build affordances for wildlife seems like a fantastic idea for our health and theirs.
- asdff 5y agoIf we can build an overpass over a freeway for some teensy town of 400 people, it should be no issue at all to construct a handful of overpasses for wildlife. Imo the issue with these proposals is that these wildlife bridges are almost always dramatically overbuilt and overlandscaped to look natural for humans, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, when just a simple bridge and a fence funneling wildlife to the bridge would do. A deer doesn't need the bridge to look like a perfect natural feature. They walk along roads as it is just fine if that's where they are heading. We just assume they want some natural looking thing but I don't think there is data suggesting that these sorts of wildlife overpasses are more effective than a simple cheap ugly one.
- megablast 5y agoYes, building more thing is the solution. More concrete and construction work.