Using Crowds, and GPS, to Chart Roadkill – NYTimes.com

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Mapping Traffic’s Toll on Wildlife (Published 2010)

Projects in California and Maine ask people to photograph and locate dead animals to understand the impact of roads on the environment.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13roadkill.html

To Ron Ringen, a retired veterinarian, roadkill is a calling.

Nearly every week for the last seven months, Mr. Ringen, 69, has driven the roads north of this college town near Sacramento, scanning the pavement for telltale bits of fur and feathers.

Pulling over, Mr. Ringen gets out, snaps photographs and uses his GPS device to record the precise location where creatures met their end.