Wild Game Bowling Alley

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JACKSON HOLE, WY - Marcia Willingham remembers driving up through
Bondurant last fall on one of her frequent trips to Jackson. She was
behind a semi tractor-trailer when she saw it plow into a small band
of mule deer. One was hit so violently it flew through the air and
landed in a mangled heap at the roadside.

"He never hit the brakes. It didn’t look like he even slowed down that
much," Willingham said.

That stretch of Highway 189 was recently dubbed a "wild game bowling
alley" by local outdoorsman Paul Bruun. Wildlife-vehicle collision
mapping conducted by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation (JHWF)
identifies the Hoback Canyon-as well as other hotspots on Highways 22
and 390, north of Jackson on Highway 191, and numerous smaller feeder
roads like Spring Gulch and Fish/Fall Creek Road-as a high priority
area where big game carnage is especially high.