Mule Deer And Elk Migration

When I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, I would visit my family in Central Oregon each summer. It's a very arid area, but it was full of wildlife. As a kid, my grandfather taught me how to identify the tracks of mule deer, elk, jack rabbit, coyote, and all the other animals that migrated through his property. I would follow the elk and mule deer tracks out into the High Desert just to see where they went. Then, a new highway went in. After that, new housing developments, resorts, swimming pools, access roads, shopping plazas. Now they have concrete barriers dividing the highway and asphalt where once there was only earth. The deer and elk can't migrate through any more. The die on the roadside; hit by passing cars. There are no more track to follow each summer.