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Frogs the losers in Sea-to-Sky upgrade:

12/20/09

04:43:51 pm, by pamela, 190 words

Categories: Environment

Frogs the losers in Sea-to-Sky upgrade:

I remember posting about this issue as the road was going in, about how the original route chosen for this section of the highway actually avoided the most environmentally sensitive area (the main wetlands which supported one of if not the largest densities of red legged frogs identified in BC). Unfortunately that route brought the highway too close to some very expensive properties in Pinecrest's backyard. But what's wiping out a few wetlands and putting local wildlife populations on the road to extirpation, as long as multi-million dollar property values aren't effected right?

Frogs the losers in Sea-to-Sky upgrade: Despite tunnels, many amphibians flattened while trying to cross highway, experts say The $600-million upgrade to the Sea-to-Sky Highway is a death trap for thousands of red-legged frogs and other animals. Two kilometres of the new highway was built through the frogs' migratory path in a wetland area near Pinecrest, 15 minutes south of Whistler. Steps taken by the highway developer, the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Environment to save the amphibians, a threatened species, don't seem to have worked.
http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Frogs+losers+upgrade/2364082/story.html

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