ScienceDaily (Oct. 17,
2012) — Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced
the successful use of newly constructed overpasses that provide safe passage
for thousands of migrating pronghorn over U.S. Highway 191 in Trapper's Point,
Wyoming, and surrounding areas. The event marks a new era of reduced risk of
wildlife/vehicular collisions in the area, and the culmination of years of
cooperation among conservationists, government officials, land and
transportation planners, and others.
The locations of the
structures completed this fall were informed by data collected by WCS, the
Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and the Wyoming Game and
Fish Department, and identified the pronghorn's preferred migration routes and
highway crossing points.
WCS has long studied an
approximately 93-mile (150 km) migration of pronghorn between wintering grounds
in the Upper Green River Basin and summering grounds in Grand Teton National
Park (GTNP) -- a migration corridor known as the "Path of the
Pronghorn." WCS worked with many partners including Grand Teton National
Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest to bring about the designation of the
Path as the first and only federally designated migration corridor in the
United States.
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