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David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: David_axt
Post Number: 181
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 04:07 pm: |    |
Every once and a while a product comes along that just blows my little pea brain mind. Well this is it!
Aco Polymer Products, Inc. has a new product called "Amphibian Guidance System". Essentially that make a trench drain into a tunnel for frogs/toads to safely cross under roads. This is to prevent them from getting squashed by passing vehicles.
I have been laughing for days about this product. The concept just seems so funny to me. Not that I want frogs to get killed, but do they really think that frogs will use the culverts? Snakes and rats yes, but frogs?
I hate to even ask, but has anybody used this product? |
David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: David_axt
Post Number: 182
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 04:08 pm: | |
Here is the link: http://www.acousa.com/wildlife.htm
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Robert E. Woodburn, RA, CCS, CCCA,CSI
Senior Member
Username: Bob_woodburn
Post Number: 20
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 06:18 pm: | |
They'll use it. After all, deer have learned pretty well to do their graceful trans-highway leaping primarily at the posted Deer Crossings...
But what we really need here in Texas is a comparable system for Armadillos. Ever since they were first intrigued by the age-old question, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" they've been wantin' to know the answer, tryin' to find out - playin' chicken.
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Anonymous
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 10:33 pm: | |
How many LEEDS points do you get? |
Phil Kabza
Senior Member
Username: Phil_kabza
Post Number: 24
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 07:42 pm: | |
Anyone trying to cross a busy Charlotte road populated by blonde southern belles driving SUVs will wish there was such an appurtenance sized to fit people. Folks from Chicago, LA, and even Atlanta have commented on this unique and terrifying Charlotte phenomenon. Just ask Anne Whittaker. |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 11:09 pm: | |
I guess there is a need somewhere.
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/NewsEngine/SelectStory_AD.tpl?command=search&db=news.db&eqskudata=85-731639-42&search-var=frogs
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Helaine K. Robinson CCS
Senior Member
Username: hollyrob
Post Number: 31
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 03:04 pm: | |
Cash-strapped Germany building $285,200 frog tunnel
Tuesday, January 6, 2004 Posted: 10:37 AM EST (1537 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/01/06/offbeat.germany.frog.tunnel.reut/index.html
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Ralph Liebing
Senior Member
Username: rliebing
Post Number: 48
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 04:08 pm: | |
Oh, Lord-- another dilemma and decision for MasterFormat04--
In what Division do these systems go? |
Marc C Chavez
Senior Member
Username: mchavez
Post Number: 21
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 04:30 pm: | |
I believe I saw a moose and elk/deer overpass in Canada. The highway was fenced on either side to encourage them, and the overpass was planted with trees etc as well.
In Seattle we need latte loading zones. |
Anne Whitacre, CCS CSI
Senior Member
Username: awhitacre
Post Number: 75
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 05:13 pm: | |
Is the amphibian guidance system convertible to a mole guidance system.... to allow moles to graceully pass under MY yard and go to the neighbor's yard? (actually I could use a possum "overpass" as well, but that's a different issue.) |
Tom Heineman RA, FCSI, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: tom_heineman
Post Number: 24
Registered: 06-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 06:26 am: | |
Alligator Alley (I-75), running east-west across the Everglades and Great Cypress Preserve of south Florida has numerous Florida panther tunnels built beneath gently elevated sections of the otherwise surface-hugging thruway. And of course there are miles of chainlink fence on each side of the wooded western 50 miles of the twin rights-of-way. The whole thing is well executed, with minimal visual impact on a woodscape that is easily violated.
Since a canal had to be cut into the limestone that underlies the muck of the Everglades to produce a base for the highway, the traveler is treated to a second "guidance system". Wading birds of all sorts use the parallel canals and the life in them for breakfast. The traveler is treated to miles and miles of large cranes, stork, ibis, and other guest avians (along with native egrets, cormorants and anhingas), standing like statues, or occasioally spreading their big wings to seek a better spot.
And Florida DOT did all this without adding any headings to its "blue book". |
Helaine K. Robinson CCS
Senior Member
Username: hollyrob
Post Number: 71
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 10:56 am: | |
Life in the fast lane: When the Germans engineers embarked on a project to give the Autobahn a major facelift, no one imagined they'd be building a separate pedestrian tunnel for the county's frogs and bats. Kyle James reports from Germany for Marketplace:
http://tinyurl.com/4xy8n OR
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/play/audio.php?media=/2004/09/03_mpp&start=00:00:21:27.0&end= |
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