After new wildlife fencing along Interstate 80 near Parleys Summit helped reduce collisions with wildlife by more than a third so far this year, highway crews are speeding up installation of more fences.
The Utah Department of Transportation on Monday showed off work that is erecting a mile of new 8-foot-tall fencing along eastbound I-80, mirroring a mile of fencing installed last fall on the other side of the freeway. UDOT also plans to then extend the fencing on both sides by another 1,400 feet.
The fences are designed eventually to funnel wildlife onto a special $5 million bridge that UDOT plans to build over I-80 next year.