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Alberta grizzlies fond of highway crossings for wildlife

A wildlife passage overpass helps critters safely cross the heavily traveled Canada Highway 1 in Banff National Park, Alberta. (Rich Landers)
A wildlife passage overpass helps critters safely cross the heavily traveled Canada Highway 1 in Banff National Park, Alberta. (Rich Landers)

WILDLIFE -- Here's more support for highway crossings for wildlife that are showing up in projects around Washington and Idaho:

Research finds grizzly bears prefer overpasses in park in Alberta
Bow Valley-based scientist Tony Clevenger has released his findings of 17 years of study on grizzly bear use of overpasses and underpasses in Banff National Park, which revealed that grizzly bears generally prefer overpasses to underpasses.
-- Rocky Mountain Outlook

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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