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HELPING MOOSE AND OTHER WILDLIFE SAFELY CROSS HIGHWAYS

Across Wyoming each year, For more than a decade, GYC’s Chris Colligan (pictured above) has been working
approximately 2,800 animals are with WYDOT and our partners to formulate a plan in Wyoming to create safer
reported hit and killed on highways roads for humans and wildlife. Most recently, Chris participated in a moose
and approximately 6,000 carcasses are collaring project to better understand movement patterns in critical habitat
collected by the Wyoming Department near the intersection of Highway 22/390. The data collected will help inform
of Transportation (WYDOT). where wildlife underpasses should be installed as part of the Snake River Bridge
replacement project scheduled to begin in 2023 near Wilson. Your support makes
In Teton County, an average of 18,000 this possible. Thank you!
cars travel Highway 22 each day,
and peak near 26,000 cars on a busy CROSSINGS WORK! OUR COMMITMENT COMING UP
summer day - a number that rivals Underpasses and Greater Yellowstone It’s important to secure
traffic on major roads like Interstate overpasses, combined Coalition is committed adequate funding to
80. with high fences that to helping moose and make these projects
funnel animals to the other wildlife safely cross happen. That’s why we’re
In the past 10 years, 390 moose have crossings, have reduced highways in Wyoming
died on Wyoming highways, 45 in animal-car accidents advocating for wildlife
Teton County alone. With moose by nearly 90 percent and throughout Greater crossings funding in state
numbers in decline through much in Montana, Wyoming, Yellowstone. and county budgets.
of their range due to loss of habitat, and Canada.
highway collisions with vehicles,
parasites, diseases, and predation, we
plan to reduce one of these dangers by Wildlife crossings are an ongoing effort at GYC. After nearly a decade of work,
creating safe highway passages within construction of an underpass on Highway 89/191 just south of Jackson began in 2017.
Teton County and beyond. The three-phase, $100 million project will eventually build six underpasses for wildlife,
two fish passages, and numerous culverts for smaller animals.

Learn more about our work to protect wildlife: GREATERYELLOWSTONE.ORG/BLOG