Will the throngs of animal lovers and nature enthusiasts that call California home come forth and help Caltrans fund the necessary willdlife over/underpasses built so that the Pumas, Coyotes and perhaps one day again--Wolves and Grizzlies can spread their genes, multiply and fulfill their ecological services on the land?

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Where humans and nature collide:

 Roadkill hot spots identified in California

Date:

April 20, 2015

Source:

University of California, Davis

Summary:

A map shows how California's state highway
 system is
 strewn with roadkill "hot spots," which are
identified in
 a newly released report. The data could
help state
 highway planners take measures to
protect both
 drivers and wildlife.

Major hot spots include:

• Sacramento area: Where I-80 and I-5 run
•  across by
• passes along the Pacific Flyway, marshy 
• areas attract
•  birds during migration and result in high 
• rates of roadkill.
• Bay Area: "It's sort of a ring of death 
• around the Bay
•  Area,
• " Shilling said. Interstate 80 and State
•  Route 101 run
•  alongside the bay, where high rates 
• of wading birds
•  and water birds are killed. Large animals
•  are more
•  likely to be hit on I-280 and State Route 
• 17,
•  particularly near areas of parks and open
•  spaces.
• Southern California: Many areas along
•  State Route
•  94 in San Diego County have high rates 
• of collisions
•  where the highway runs through wildlife
• habitat.
•  Shilling said Caltrans is planning to build
•  five new
•  wildlife-crossing structures in this area
•  because the
•  data demonstrate both an immediate 
• need and 
• locations where structures would be 
• useful.
• Sierra: Highway 70 in Plumas County 
• and near
•  Portola has high rates of roadkill,
•  particularly deer.
• North Coast: Both State Routes 101
•  and 20 show
•  high rates of collision between Willits
•  and Lake
•  Mendocino.