Georgia transportation officials are planning to add a half-dozen bear tunnels beneath a highway in what will be a first-of-its-kind project for the state.
A project manager for the Georgia Department of Transportation says preliminary plans have already been completed and the state is now buying land along State Route 96, according to the AP report from WSPA.
Similar engineering efforts have helped other animals cross roads, including endangered panthers in Florida for whom tunnels were built. The passageway under the highway that bisects the 18,000-acre Paynes Prairie wetland in Gainesville has been a huge success at reducing roadkill.
