(Wyoming Information Service) Individuals are hitting the highway for summer season trip, and lots of can be headed to Grand Teton and Yellowstone Nationwide Parks through U.S. Freeway 26.
Daryl Lutz – Lander area wildlife administration coordinator with the Wyoming Recreation and Fish Division – mentioned biologists and Division of Transportation engineers are narrowing in on plans to scale back wildlife car collisions alongside a 35 mile stretch close to Dubois.
Lutz mentioned state-of-the-art radio World Positioning System collars helped finalize one of the best spots for wildlife crossings.
“Actually tens of hundreds of location datapoints,” mentioned Lutz, “from elk, mule deer and bighorn sheep. That has helped us delineate the place wildlife most often method and/or cross the freeway.”
Wildlife-vehicle collisions alongside this part of Freeway 26 kill as much as 250 animals annually, at a price of greater than $800,000 in property injury, emergency response and cleanup.
After engineering plans are set – Lutz mentioned they anticipate staff to interrupt floor on one overpass, three underpasses, and modifications to 4 different buildings inside the subsequent 12 months or two.
Tourism and recreation is Wyoming’s second-largest trade, including $1.7 billion to the state’s economic system in 2019.
Grand Teton Nationwide Park superintendent Chip Jenkins mentioned a big a part of that financial exercise relies on sturdy wildlife populations.
“Individuals coming to see, folks coming to hunt, folks coming to {photograph} wildlife,” mentioned Jenkins. “So, these wildlife migration corridors are completely essential to keep up, not only for the well being of the ecosystem but additionally for serving to to assist the state’s economic system.”
Lutz mentioned whereas overpasses and fencing that separates animals from autos are costly, they allow herds to keep up entry to essential habitat on either side of the highway. He mentioned he believes they’re a very good funding.
“It is anticipated that we’ll have paid for them, given the variety of collisions that occur, and the prices related to these collisions, in about 30 years,” mentioned Lutz. “After which the longevity of these buildings is not less than 75 years.”
Help for this reporting was supplied by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Ashton Jeanty became Boise State’s first 2,000-yard rusher by collecting 169 yards on 19 carries as the 12th-ranked Broncos beat Wyoming 17-13 on Saturday night in Laramie, Wyo.
Jeanty, who also found the end zone once on the ground, entered the contest as the nation’s leading rusher with 1,893 yards. His big performance on Saturday helped Boise State (10-1, 7-0 Mountain West Conference) clinch a berth in the conference championship game.
The Broncos got 53 rushing yards from Jeanty during their penultimate drive of the game, which ended with Jambres Dubar rumbling across the goal line from 2 yards out for a 17-13 lead with 5:02 to go.
Wyoming (2-9, 2-5) turned the ball over on downs on its ensuing possession. It had gone up 13-10 earlier in the fourth quarter when John Hoyland made good on a 35-yard field goal with 9:03 remaining.
Maddux Madsen completed 14 of 26 passes for 168 yards for Boise State. Cameron Camper had five catches for 74 yards, while Dubar rushed for 22 yards and the touchdown on five touches.
Kaden Anderson started under center for the Cowboys, but he did not play in the second half because of an apparent injury. He had 116 yards and a TD on 9-of-14 passing prior to exiting. Evan Svoboda took over and hit on 6 of 13 passes for 87 yards.
Wyoming’s Justin Stevenson had four catches for 82 yards and a touchdown, and Jaylen Sargent finished with four receptions for 86 yards. Boise State took a 7-3 lead on a 61-yard Jeanty touchdown run with 3:40 to go in the first quarter. Jeanty cut back and sprinted down the wide side of the field for the score.
Early in the second quarter, Anderson launched a pass from the Cowboys’ logo at midfield and found a leaping Sargent for a 41-yard completion. Two plays later, Stevenson grabbed a 5-yard TD for a 10-7 lead with 9:36 to go.
As time ran out in the first half, Jonah Dalmas’ 24-yard field goal tied the game at 10.
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MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wyoming men’s cross country program finished 30th as a team with 707 points at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
The Cowboys were led by junior Jacob White throughout the whole race. White finished 119th with a time of 30:00.4. Following a theme of Cowboys finishing together throughout the season, senior Ryker Holtzen finished right by White in 120th, improving his placement at each 1K interval since the 7K mark, with a time of 30:01.3.
To close out his collegiate cross country career, senior Gus McIntyre came in 184th crossing the line at 30:34.9. In his first year in Wyoming, senior Dylan van der Hock finished with a time of 30:58.8 for 211th after improving his standing by nine places in the last kilometer. To close out the scoring five, senior Mason Norman grabbed 214th with a time of 31:00.8.
Two more Cowboys, and Wyoming natives, started the 10K in seniors Trevor Stephen and Asefa Wetzel. Stephen finished in a time of 31:24.4 for 233rd overall. Wetzel remained in 251st place at the 5K and 6K mark before having to step out.
As a team, the Cowboys averaged a 30:31.2 10K with individual finishes of 119-120-184-211-214 and point totals of 99-100-153-176-179.
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