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Thread #34595   Message #3838287
Posted By: robomatic
11-Feb-17 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Moose on the Highway (Nancy White)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Moose on the Highway (Nancy White)
Alaskans have the same problem, particularly this Winter where the snow piles up and the moose take the path of least resistance, into plowed roads. About twenty years ago during deep snow winters we had moose on railroad tracks getting slaughtered in large numbers by the Railroad. I recall one story about a single railroad run taking out more than sixty. That may be happening now only without the reportage.
Anyhow, on roads they are no joke, because they are dark brown in the nigh, have long legs and if you hit them in a standard car their big bodies come right through your windshield. Neither you, your car, nor the moose will ever be the same. I have seen one on the highway bounce across a hood (the car had braked hard) and scramble off, but that was a lucky happenstance.