OVER 7,800+ WILDLIFE-VEHICLE COLLISIONS IN DRATville ALREADY THIS YEAR???

[elkassassin]

138 Million In Damages!

Probably Didn't Add In The Value Of The Wildlife Either?

Still Got Another Month That'll Be Bad!

JOKING,But?

Anybody Know What The Vehicle Looks Like When Some Of These DRAT'S Hit A Deer At Over 100 MPH?

Or How Bout A 189 MPH?

 

[D_Hoyt]

Oddly enough, I think that number is still low. I have one canyon that I won't drive faster than 55 and I get passed all the time. Three times those people have hit deer and once an elk. It doesn't help that they are always on the phone when they fly by me. Not just a Utah problem though.

 

[hawkbill]

I will be leaving Flagstaff early Sunday morning and driving all the way through Utah into Idaho. I’m thinkinking of buying the wife and myself helmets for the trip home, oh it’s not for the wildlife it’s for the Mormon 500

 

[Vanilla]

I wish they’d detail this more. Is hitting a rabbit considered a wildlife collision here? A pot gut someone sees smashed on the highway and someone reports?

But I’m going to make an assumption that more than half these are deer, you start to see what a major problem this is. 4,000 deer per year turns into 7-8,000 less deer each year pretty quickly. Compound that number over a 3-4 year period and that becomes tens of thousands we aren’t seeing on the landscape due to being hit and killed by cars. Over time, and factoring loss of reproduction, this is a metric SHIZ ton of deer. Or in other words, a noticeable difference in the statewide population.

We will never be able to eliminate every one of these, but through effective fencing and crossing projects, we can certainly reduce them significantly. But that costs lots of money, and we aren’t good at spending money on things that really help.

 

[slamdunk]

I wish they’d detail this more. Is hitting a rabbit considered a wildlife collision here? A pot gut someone sees smashed on the highway and someone reports?

But I’m going to make an assumption that more than half these are deer, you start to see what a major problem this is. 4,000 deer per year turns into 7-8,000 less deer each year pretty quickly. Compound that number over a 3-4 year period and that becomes tens of thousands we aren’t seeing on the landscape due to being hit and killed by cars. Over time, and factoring loss of reproduction, this is a metric SHIZ ton of deer. Or in other words, a noticeable difference in the statewide population.

We will never be able to eliminate every one of these, but through effective fencing and crossing projects, we can certainly reduce them significantly. But that costs lots of money, and we aren’t good at spending money on things that really help.

It's scary to think that one healthy adult Doe can birth 20+ fawns in her lifetime.

The calculations on what that 20+ number of deer from a single Doe produces would be astounding.

It's amazing we have any deer at all in some of our more rural areas.
Highway 40 alone is a bloodbath.

 

[BrowningRage]

I seem to remember from a decade or so ago, a number was put out about "roadkill removal" calls to get roadkill off roads around the state. The number was 9000+ and I think that was just for the winter months... I also can't remember if it was for just deer, or all big game. Either way, I remember being shocked by the number...

 

[Castnshoot]

Makes for some good early morning back strap crushing.

 

[johnnycake]

Anybody Know What The Vehicle Looks Like When Some Of These DRAT'S Hit A Deer At Over 100 MPH?

I can say as the front seat passenger that my dad's 2000 F-350 with 35s and a 6-8" lift going 95-100 mph just south of Santaquin will barely feel a bump when it turns 4 muleys into paste and mist. One did leave a small dent on the bumper that her eyelashes were stuck too. And it was a real ***** cleaning the greasy, rotten guts off the whole passenger side on a hot August day.