Welcome to the Roadscapes Wednesday segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Roadscapes Wednesday will feature roads and infrastructure related topics. Geek Alabama Editor / Publisher Nathan Young is often called the “road geek” for a good reason, Nathan loves roads and loves talking about roads!
We’re contributing to one of the biggest wildlife corridors in the world, a huge network of wildlife crossings, tunnels and fencing systems in North America.
For centuries, wildlife moved freely across the Rocky Mountains. Now, roads cut through animal habitat across North America, turning simple movement into something dangerous. There are millions of wildlife collisions every year, claiming countless lives and costing billions of dollars in damages.
We went to the Rocky Mountains and partnered with Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) to contribute to a massive wildlife corridor that’s reconnecting these areas and making sure wildlife can move freely again.
But big infrastructure projects like this take extensive bureaucracy, government permits and a huge amount of public funding. And none of that happens without evidence.
That’s why, in our 36th mission, we helped Y2Y gather the data and information needed to plan future crossings and shape a landscape where humans and wildlife can coexist.
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