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Animals are using Utah’s largest wildlife overpass earlier than expected

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    Experts originally anticipated that local wildlife could take years to get used to the new, animal-friendly infrastructure, UDOT spokesman John Gleason told Park Record’s Angelique McNaughton in 2018. But in the last two years, cameras placed along the bridge’s guardrail captured footage of not only the expected deer, moose and elk, but also predators and small mammals.

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    In a video posted on Facebook on November 19, viewers can watch moose, deer and elk trot across the bridge. In other clips, black bears wander up and down the path. And in another segment, a bobcat carries a small mammal in its mouth while walking across the bridge at night. Boulders and logs are strewn across the bridge to help it blend in with the landscape on either side and encourage animals to use it. And the animals do—a camera captured a big cat scratching and stretching on one of the logs.

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