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'DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — After years of research, planning and construction to
establish a new wildlife crossing in Colorado, the first signs of success are
always something special for those behind the project.
It might be a trail camera's photo of a deer and her fawn. It might be a coyote
paw print in the mud.
But it's really much, much more than that.
"When you see them go up, and when you see them work, and you start to get the
(trail camera) pictures back, it just puts a huge smile on your face," Chuck
Attardo, Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT) I-25 South Corridor
environmental project manager, explained in mid-June. "To capitalize on this
momentum that's been occurring for about the last five years and to get some of
these things built and to see the success — it just makes us giddy."
As he stood under a new wildlife underpass built as part of the I-25 South Gap
Project in Douglas County, his eyes lit up and his hands traced animal tracks
in the mud.
He pointed to an elk hoof print, one of dozens printed into the wet ground,
quietly saying, "Right there."'
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