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ODOT Works To Keep Cars And Critters Apart

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You've probably seen for yourself the result of a collision between a deer and a motor vehicle.  It is not pretty for either vehicle or deer. 

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) keeps track of animal encounters with traffic, and our region contains some of the roads with the highest numbers of collisions. 

ODOT is putting money and people into researching wildlife migration patterns... in the hope of creating spaces where animals and motor vehicles and exist, but not mingle.  Oregon Fish and Wildlife has a role here, too.  Cidney Bowman, Wildlife Passage Program leader at ODOT, and ODFW biologist Sara Gregory are our guests.
 

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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.