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Post by stevein on Oct 20, 2022 13:54:35 GMT -5
On my way out west passing through western Kansas where you can see nothing but miles of most flat land. I could look all around and not see any tree bigger than Charlie Brown's Christmas tree there along the road was a dead Raccoon. Where did it live? No trees, creeks were no wider than a 1 bottom plow and dry as a bone. Could it have been up on a semi and finally got off? It would have a long walk from any direction to get to where it was. I did see a couple of Badgers and what I think was an armadillo but no possums.
Around the Grand Junction area I noticed fencing about 6 foot tall. Every so often there was a spot on the highway side where deer and others could walk up and jump down. Probably in case there was a spot they could get out to the road and they could easily get back. There were also tunnels under the highway they could walk through.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Oct 20, 2022 14:01:54 GMT -5
I saw a bunch of dead coons in western Nebraska a couple weeks ago. There are big cottonwoods in the river bottoms, I'm not sure if they travel that far at night in search of food or if they are living in badger holes out there.
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 20, 2022 20:08:02 GMT -5
I noticed the lack of roadkill when I drove to Colorado. Around here you can't go 2 miles without seeing some kind of dead critter on the road.
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Post by 36fan on Oct 21, 2022 9:04:15 GMT -5
I just got back from a trip to Yellowstone. There are lots of various animal crossing signs out there, but little visible road kill.
...except when we came upon a car that had just hit a moose cow. It was not pretty. A couple of fire trucks and ambulances were onsite. The car was all smashed up, and the moose was in the ditch.
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Post by welder on Oct 21, 2022 11:06:39 GMT -5
Animals are strange critters. I have seen roadkill muskrats a long ways from any water, I have also seen snapping turtles where they absolutely not expected to be.
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Post by BigJLocke on Oct 21, 2022 13:13:32 GMT -5
I was stationed in Leavenworth for a couple years and went back and forth to fort Riley, and you would be surprised at the landscape. It is flat, but there are plenty of little hidey holes around for critters. The very slow elevation gain leaves the fat side of any hill invisible from 70. I believe it was K7 or another one that parallels 70 and you can’t see vehicles on it from the hills in between
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