Mia’s Reviews > Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet > Status Update
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Whereas other ungulates stray widely, mule deer remain faithful to their inherited pathways. Deer migration isn’t merely a movement pattern but a form of culture, transmitted from doe to fawn like family lore. And when roads thwart their treks, the loss is as thorough as the erasure of a language.
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“But roads are used to carrying symbolic weight: as one historian has noted, they are as much “expressions of ideology” as physical features. A road is never just a road.”
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The chief irony of biological annihilation is this: We are both its cause and its solution.”
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“species loneliness—estrangement from the rest of Creation.”
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“when you share a city with wildlife you can’t help but grasp animal standpoints or ways of being”
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small overpasses work in places like utah bc there is less traffic and noise pollution, but not in more populated areas where there is never any quiet
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“Overpasses…are billboards that advertise the preservation of movement, reminding us that we share the land—even with very large carnivores, in our very largest cities.”
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“we see the carcass on the shoulder, but never the doe who loses her fawn because a remote drilling operation disrupted her green-wave surfing”
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“ungulate culture and human technology together forging a new pathway”
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“the loss of migration transcends individual species. It is the endangerment of a biological process, the loss of life way nearly as ancient as movement itself.”
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