WSJ Takes Note of CWU Biologists' I90 Project

  • June 27, 2017

Why did the black bear cross the road?

Actually, it didn’t—because it didn’t have to.

A motion-activated camera shows that the bear in question took an overpass—essentially a large, camouflaged arch—that gracefully carves over U.S. Highway 93 in Montana, just north of the town of Evaro at the entrance to the Flathead Indian Reservation. Thirty-eight more of these man-made wildlife crossings allow all manner of critters to take a safe route over or under the stretch of highway between Evaro and Polson, 56 miles to the north.

Read more of this story in the Wall Street Journal.

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