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John,

Human and wildlife transportation corridors often intersect, limiting safe
routes for animals.

Roadways and highways fragment habitats for wildlife like mule deer—cutting them
off from crucial habitat and making them more vulnerable to being struck and
killed by cars.

Luckily, bridges, culverts, tunnels, fencing, and related wildlife crossings can
help wildlife move safely across roads. Wildlife crossings are an important investment that can protect people and
animals, and Congress has a chance to support and fund these projects in the
Highway Bill.

Call on your representative to support wildlife crossings.
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Building wildlife crossing structures like overpasses, underpasses, and culverts
in combination with funneling fences along roads has proven to be the most
effective measure to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions across America and
around the world.

Proactively ramping up wildlife crossings can help wildlife reach the resources
they need—such as food, water, shelter, and breeding sites—connecting migration
corridors and critical wildlife habitat, and rerouting animals on a detour from
danger.

Please ask your representative to prioritize robust funding in the upcoming
Highway Bill for wildlife crossings programs aimed at reducing wildlife-vehicle
collisions—improving human safety and connecting habitats.
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Mule deer are among the most beloved and iconic wildlife of the American West.
These big-eared deer need a lot of room to roam—the longest known migration of a
mule deer is nearly 250 miles from southwest Wyoming’s Red Desert all the way to
Island Park, Idaho.

In the state of Wyoming, collisions with elk, mule deer, moose, and pronghorn
have cost $50 million annually. However, successful implementations of wildlife
crossings has reduced ungulate-vehicle collisions where they are installed by
approximately 80 percent.

Wildlife crossings make roads safer for people and wildlife. Ask your
Representative to support wildlife crossings in the Highway Bill, and to learn
more by attending a briefing on wildlife crossings in the Highway Bill on March
5.
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Thank you for watching out for wildlife in our interconnected world.

Sincerely,

Mike Leahy
Senior Advisor, Wildlife Policy
National Wildlife Federation Action Fund

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