StormKittyKat

Horse lover, racing fan, industry champion

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@gowanusofficial So very sorry for your loss but his memories will last forever in your heart 🩶🩶🩶

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Canada built bridges for bears, and the bears used them.

So did wolves, cougars, elk, moose, lynx, wolverines, bighorn sheep, black bears, deer, and almost everything else trying to cross one of the busiest highways in the Rockies.

The Trans-Canada Highway cuts through Banff National Park for 82 km. For decades, it did what highways do: split habitat in half, severed migration routes, isolated populations, and turned animal movement into roadkill.

So Parks Canada tried something that sounded ridiculous to a lot of people at the time: they built wildlife bridges and tunnels.

They look nice, but they're far from a decoration. Forested overpasses wide enough for grizzlies and elk. Dark underpasses for cougars and black bears. Fencing along the highway to keep animals off the pavement and guide them toward safe crossings.

At the time, critics called it a waste of money and editorials opined that animals would never use them.

Fortunately, animals don't read opinion pieces. Since monitoring began, wildlife have used Banff’s crossings more than 250,000 documented times.

Grizzlies took years to trust them. Elk started testing them while they were still under construction. Different species chose different designs: grizzlies and elk tended to prefer wide, open overpasses, while cougars and black bears often used narrower underpasses.

The results were not subtle. Wildlife-vehicle collisions dropped by more than 80% overall. For elk and deer, they dropped by more than 96%.

Banff now has one of the most studied wildlife crossing systems on Earth, and countries around the world have looked to it as a model.

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@TheNYRA Hoping it and the other murals are being rehomed 🙏

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@Fascinate_Hist Love your posts in NJ🌊

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@C2RacingStable You'll get 'em next time Champ! 🤍

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@weird_christmas Love Santa's summer look and ride 🌞

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@arealmofwonder D

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@ChrissieEvert Sending prayers and positive energy your way #Love

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@candiburke Congrats! It's a beauty❤️

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@arealmofwonder In honor of the #TartanArmy (which is currently charming the US) I choose D 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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@JHallettPhoto Congrats! The 17 were there guiding Canadian home ❤️

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@Above96th Brilliant! I hope you're entering some of these in photo contests🥇

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Happy Summer Solstice 🌞

[Standardbred Retirement Foundation @SRF_SOSS]

⏰8️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ to go! DEADLINE TONIGHT.
Please share and donate today. Donations are tax deductible. Let’s get Princess to her rescue home waiting.
🏠‼️ https://t.co/SLHaDLgu9c

[NYC Plover Project @NycPlover]

Here’s to all the plover dads this Father’s Day! You protect your territories, partners and broods, and remind us about resilience, determination, and love. We hold in our hearts one very special plover dad, Clark Kent.

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@JHallettPhoto Lovely tribute 😢

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@CarlBovisNature 🤎🤍🖤

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@candiburke Beautiful! Congrats on your first show 💙

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@lhkjade921 💙🖤❤️

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@Rainmaker1973 👀