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Show SPEEDING MOTOR GARSTAKE TOLL Wild Animals Face Serious Menace From Automobiles Automo-biles on Highways. Wild animals, whose movements and natural Increase are restricted by agricultural ag-ricultural and Industrial development now face a serious hazard from automobiles, auto-mobiles, which are Increasing in number num-ber and are being driven over improved im-proved highways at the higher average aver-age speeds possible by modern construction, con-struction, better servicing facilities, and more liberal speed regulations. Approximately one person In five drives an automobile. The highway system Includes more than 615,000 miles of surfaced highways, with approximately ap-proximately 90,000 miles In Important Interstate routes. Counted Carcasses. One member of the United States Department of Agriculture, observing the highway menace to wild life, determined de-termined to count the animal carcasses car-casses he passed while on two motor trips. : On a 632-mile trip In lowa last summer be observed 225 Individuals dead along the highway, crushed by speeding automobiles. These Included 40 reptiles, 43 mammals and 142 birds 29 species in all. Of the birds, 43 were red-headed woodpeckers and 20 were domestic fowls. Similar In South. On a tour early In October from southern Iowa to north-central Florida, a distance of about 1,400 miles, a similar sim-ilar count Identified 23 species In the death toll of highways. The 234 Individuals Indi-viduals included 6 amphibians, 81 reptiles, rep-tiles, 45 mammals, 67 birds, and 85 miscellaneous vertebrate forms. The bird list Included 23 domestic fowls and 21 English sparrows. Six cuts, two dogs, and a pig composed the group of domestic animals other than poultry. |
