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Before descending the Cascade 

Mountains on its final stretch to Seattle, 

Interstate 90 cuts through a mountain 

pass of old-growth forests and wetlands. 

For countless wildlife species, the busy 

highway is a border, constraining their 

movements and posing a fatal risk should 

they dare to cross it. 

“Everything from an elk down to a 

small salamander, they need to move 

to find food, to find mates, to find new 

places to live as their populations expand 

or just when conditions change, like a 

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Highway wildlife bridges helping to reduce incidences 

of vehicle-animal collisions 

fire breaks out,” said Jen Watkins of 

Conservation Northwest. 

Soon, animals will have a safer option 

for crossing the road: They’ll be able to 

go above it. 

Washington state is finishing work 

on its largest wildlife bridge. The 

35-foot-tall, 66-foot-wide structure 

emerges from the forest and forms two 

arches above the highway, one for each 

direction of traffic. 

Fencing and landscaping will be 


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installed to guide animals across the 

bridge, and 8-foot walls will block car 

noise. 

At least one animal has already used it. 

Washington’s Transportation Department 

tweeted last week that a wildlife camera 

captured video of a coyote scampering 

over I-90 on the new structure. “Excited 

to see what other species cross!” the 

agency wrote. 

Scientists pinpointed the area as part 

of a natural migration route from the 

Cascades to Keechelus Lake, about 60 

miles east of Seattle, said Meagan Lott, 

spokeswoman for the project. Animals, 

especially elk, move to the lower lands as 

the seasons change and the mountains get 

colder and snowier. 

“Providing habitat reconnection 

will prevent some of the wildlife from 

accessing I-90 and keep drivers safe,” 

she said. 

The I-90 bridge is part of a growing 

number of wildlife crossings across the 

U.S. 

The crossings – a combination of 

fencing, overland bridges and underpasses 

– aim to keep drivers and animals away 

from each other as increased human 

population, a boom in the number of deer 

and development encroaching on natural 

habitat have meant more cars on roads 

and more crashes with animals. 

A 2008 U.S. Transportation Department 

study found collisions between animals 

and humans have steadily increased, 

totaling 5 percent of all crashes 

nationwide and, at the time, costing about 

$8 billion to the economy, including 

everything from car repairs to emergency 

room visits and carcass disposal. 

But Renee Callahan of the Montanabased 

Center for Large Landscapes 

Conservation says driver-animal collisions 

remain vastly underreported. She points to 

a 2017 study by Virginia’s transportation 

agency that showed law enforcement tallies 

of deer-driver collisions were 8.5 times 

lower than the number of carcass removals. 

An adjusted tally showed deer collisions 

ranked fourth among the 14 types of 

costliest collisions in Virginia, adding up to 

more than $500 million per year. 


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“This is an issue that’s perennially 

undermeasured, and that means it’s 

not ranked properly among priorities,” 

Callahan said. 

Collisions between animals and drivers 

are rarely fatal to people but often deadly 

to wildlife. The 2008 federal study also 

found 21 endangered or threatened species 

in the U.S. are affected by vehicle hits. 

Along a stretch of Colorado’s State 

Highway 9, which winds through forests 

and mountains west of Denver, spring 

melt used to unveil a grim toll. The 

carcasses of mule deer, which winter in the 

area, would emerge on the roadside under 

melting snow, said Michelle Cowardin, a 

Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist. 

On average, more than 55 deer would 

be hit by drivers each winter. 

But then a local ranch, nearby 

municipalities and a matching state grant 

raised $45 million for several crossings. 

The first two years of monitoring showed 

the number of hits down to 

about eight per winter. 

Park, research has found bridges, underpasses 

and fencing cut the area’s animal-driver 

collisions by 80 percent. Another set of 

crossings and fencing in Wyoming built for 

a pronghorn migration has seen drops of 

more than 85 percent. 

All but four of the two dozen overland 

wildlife bridges are in Western states, 

but dozens of other locations have been 

pinpointed as needing corridors, Callahan 

said. 

“The No. 1 obstacle is funding,” said 

Watkins, whose organization has helped 

campaign for animal crossings. 

Biologist Patty Garvey-Darda of the 

U.S. Forest Service has worked on the 

I-90 crossing from the beginning. She 

says the $6 million bridge will pay for 

itself when the highway is not fully or 

partially closed by animal hits. 

“If you shut down Interstate 90, you 

shut down interstate commerce,” Garvey- 

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“We’ve had 22,000 

successful movements of 

mule deer across seven 

structures. Those aren’t 

individual deer, but the 

way I like to think about it, 

that’s 22,000 times a deer 

wasn’t crossing a highway 

and potentially causing an 

accident with a motorist,” 

Cowardin said. 

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TCA Top Drivers: Finalists in the Truckload Carriers 

Association’s 2018 Driver of the Year contest 

Six professional truck drivers — three 

company drivers and three owner-operators 

— have been chosen as finalists 

in the Truckload Carriers Association’s 

2018 Driver of the Year contest. 

The six will now compete for the 

grand prize in each division. 

The finalists were selected based on 

their ability to operate safely on public 

highways, their efforts to enhance the 

public image of the trucking industry, and 

their contributions to the communities in 

which they live, TCA officials said. 

Each grand prize winner will receive 

$25,000, while the two runners-up in 

each division will win $2,500. 

Finalists in the Company Driver of 

the Year competition include: 

2018 Company Driver of the Year 

Contest finalists: 

• Don Lewis of Republic, Missouri, 

who drives for Wilson Logistics of 

Springfield, Missouri. 

• David McGowan of Marinette, 

Wisconsin, who drives for WEL 

Companies of De Pere, Wisconsin. 

• Ester Nemeth of Winnipeg, 

Manitoba, Canada, who drives for 

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the Year competition include: 

• Danny Jewell of Nebraska City, 

Nebraska, who is leased to Warren 

Transport of Waterloo, Iowa. 

• Kevin Kocmich of Litchfield, 

Minnesota, who is leased to Diamond 

Transportation System of Racine, 

Wisconsin. 

• Robert Roth of Coldwater, 

Ontario, Canada, who is leased to 

Erb International of New Hamburg, 

Ontario, Canada. 

“Each one of our finalists is exceptional,” 

said TCA Chairman and Searcy 

Specialized President Dan Doran. 

“Regardless of who may take home the 

grand prize award in March, each driver 

has made significant contributions to 

the industry and should be applauded 

for their efforts as they’re setting the 

finest example possible.” 

Grand prize winners will be 

announced at TCA’s 81st Annual 

Convention at the Wynn Las Vegas 

Resort on Tuesday, March 12 during 

the annual Awards Banquet. 

For more information on the Driver 

of the Year Contests, visit truckload. 

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