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Deer (Over)Crossing

Steve Hillebrand
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USDFW

Highway workers post signs warning of deer along rural roads. 

But do people really slow down when they see the signs? 

The large numbers of deer hit by cars and trucks suggest the answer is no. 

So the Oregon Department ofTransportation--ODOT--wants to give deer a safe place to cross one highway where the carnage is especially acute. 

Highway 97 in northern Klamath County is proposed as the location of a wildlife overpass... deer and other critters would have the overpass to themselves and not share it with humans. 

We hear the concept and the plan. 
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.