“Carl Wilson spent years driving trucks past I-90 in Osburn, Idaho, watching elk get killed trying to cross the highway. He set out to turn an abandoned ‘bridge to nowhere’—half-demolished decades earlier by a mining company—into a wildlife overpass, rallying neighbors, businesses, and state agencies behind the idea. Wilson died in December 2022 before the project was completed. However, Kirsten Voorhees, a civil engineer who’d survived her own collision with a deer at 16, promised him she’d see it through. She did. With $645,000 in grants, the retrofit was completed in August 2025, and trail cameras have since recorded elk and deer using it safely. ‘I told him, “You have my word,”’ Voorhees said. ‘It became a blood oath.’”

—Tangle

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