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Here is one guy's solution. :umnik:

 

Animals Need a Paving Moratorium
Road banning helps more than mere road planning, especially because new roads initially generate more roadkills than old. The equation is simple: fewer roads equal fewer motor vehicles and roadkill.

 

Replacing 20 cars with one bus, and 50 trucks with one train, would reduce congestion on present highways and postpone or eliminate the "need" for new ones. This could revive our ailing public transit and mass freight systems.

 

Another simple equation is too controversial for most people to embrace and most lawmakers to endorse: Fewer affluent people, and fewer people generally, equal fewer motor vehicles, fewer roads and fewer roadkills.

 

Legislators can reduce the speed and enhance the safety of our cars. Enforced speed limits would afford greater protection for every animal on the road, and for every motorist as well. But as long as automakers manufacture cars capable of cruising at 110 m.p.h., twice most legal speed limits, whatever lawmakers dictate will be disobeyed by chronic speedsters. Silent but deadly, next century's electric cars pose the greatest risk of all.

 

With dwindling and damaged habitat, animals are losing ground in humanity's broader war against wildlife. In time, the rate of roadkill will declineónot from lack of cars or roads, but from lack of wildlife.

Mark Matthew Braunstein authored "Radical Vegetarianism" and is a nature photographer. He is paraplegic, so he has an excuse for driving.

 

The whole article here.

http://www.culturechange.org/issue8/roadkill.htm

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i thoght all the deer were killed off by winter kill, coyotes, too many doe tags.... hmmmm

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Isnt it funny the way that goes... Deer that don't exist don't get hit by cars. But yet you'll hear the same complaints again this fall about how there's no deer anywhere.

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