The moral of the story? Slowing down in the parks and forests is about more than just trying to avoid a ticket.
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Sunlight streams through a dense canopy, casting a shimmering glow on a stream that dips under a well-traveled park road.
“I call this the kill zone,” said Moose Mutlow, a contractor with the Yosemite Institute. “Animals crossing here just don’t stand a chance.”
Mutlow has studied the park’s roadkill and found that hundreds of the very animals visitors come here to see — from squirrels to black bears — end up dead on Yosemite’s busy byways.