|
Quote:
Highway 59 is a two-lane rope of asphalt that rolls across the flatlands of northeast Wyoming and slices through the Thunder Basin National Grassland. These days, the road is littered with the bodies of rabbits that have paid dearly in their quest for the green grass, water and warmth the roadway provides.
In a stunning and not-for-the-squeamish 112-mile stretch of highway running between Douglas and Gillette, a tally by a reporter (and you think your job has some weird aspects) showed more than 3,000 dead jackrabbits and cottontails scattered along the road.
"Sometimes when you drive that road at night," said Wyoming Department of Transportation executive Tim Stark, "there's a regular rhythm to it. You hit several of them every minute. It's steady. Thump, thump, thump."
|
