When we design things like this in reclamation, there is often the concern that the designed feature can act like a trap or increase predation. There was an article a while back that showed that these are actually safe, and blend into the surrounding landscape in terms of risk to the animals.
Oh look, someone actually backing their viewpoint up on the internet:
The tears induced from the onion helped people on the bus think you felt bad and had a problem
Let me be clear: I’ve worked for chickenshit outfits like this before, where safety was an afterthought, so I can appreciate and relate to these stories.
That said, these all take the cake. Like I have seen and done some really sketchy shit, and these all top most of my stories.
I used to work 16+ hour days, stand in a dump trailer (confined space sort of), in the dark, and have a tractor lift 1 tonne bags of pellets into the trailer, open them (working under a suspended load), and dump the contents at my feet. The bags sometimes ripped from their hooks on the tractor and would come down fast.
Holy
Fucking
Shit
That’s a wild story it just kept getting worse
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No u
knowing how cheap they are, though, it’s just those little silca packs you get in beef jerky
True, but there is platinum in the converter
Boss makes a grand
I make a buck
That’s why I steal
The converter of the company truck
How management views technical staff.
Takes 8 at a time… Christ.
Ka chunk.
Click click click click click click click click
Ka chunk…
Why? We don’t have feral hogs here.
I would settle for taxation and gag orders.
Stfu already.
No. Wrong way to eat that shit
FtFY
This is the reaction for most animals
If only low lifes or junkies were given the support they needed to not be low lifes or junkies.
Not everyone has your best interest at heart, certainly, but all people have value and not many would actively choose addiction
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
Oh.
Thanks! Can’t wait for use these deliberately wrong on the neighbourhood kids
While you’re right, in that predators won’t sit there, doing their best to get on Season 8 of My 600-lb life, they definitely exploit linear corridors like this if they aren’t properly constructed. Transmission lines, for instance, can be really gnarly for ungulates. Both predators and prey are smart. For predators, if there’s an easy meal to be had, they’ll continue to over-use this feature on the landscape, rather than the rest of their habitat (why cook, when you can order in?). This in and of itself is an impact on the natural ecosystem, and something we try to avoid, when the goal is ‘no impact’ or ‘as close to no impact as possible’.
From a prey standpoint, if you see Jim-Bob getting ripped apart by wolves, or got chased by pack of hungry wolves, you’d be pretty hesitant to use that feature again, now wouldn’t you? In this regard, not properly designing these things can essentially render them useless to ungulates and the like, and prevent the re-connection of the two polygons (areas) we’re trying to connect.