Two new wildlife crossings are in the planning stage for Highway 1A between Exshaw and Canmore.
A map from the province's Alberta Wildlife Watch website of wildlife crossings and exclusion fencing projects in the Bow Valley area.
“We did hear about the wildlife fencing through the Canmore area that was announced earlier this year by the province, but all the additional pieces on the 1A were great, positive news to hear when this new website came out in early June.” “Those are often really effective projects because they’re not quite as expensive. It’s taking advantage of the terrain and using an existing watercourse and basically modifying it to be more amenable to wildlife passage,” said Johnson.
The data is tracked through the province’s Alberta Wildlife Watch Program, which analyzes animal-vehicle collisions along provincial highways. Ideally, wildlife crossing projects include a mix of underpasses and overpasses, he added, as wildlife sometimes use crossings differently. The underpass is west of the under-construction Bow Valley Gap wildlife overpass, east of Canmore on the Trans-Canada Highway.
The first-of-its-kind overpass in Alberta, outside of Banff National Park, was anticipated for completion in summer 2024, however, construction is now slated to continue until October. “As much as we, as humans, see it still being under construction, it’s been functional for wildlife, which is great.”
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