and break their legs?
i don't think the ones we saw weren't spaced far apart enough for bison to fall through, their hooves were nearly as big as my hand, and the grates were easy for me to walk across, and even in my big boots my feet are only one and a half times the size of my hand. i'd have to go back and measure the bison tracks and the spaces between them.

cows are notoriously poor problem solvers and bad critical thinkers, do some cows have to fall through and break their legs before the herd knows not to try and walk there?

and what about the big game animals that are being 'protected' by them up here? i'd think the risk of critically endangered woodland caribou breaking their woolly little legs, or the loss of more monetarily valuable animals big horned sheeps and elk might make a leg-breaking gate unsuitable.
though i suppose a couple broken legs vs. damage to cars on the highway might make them an acceptable option.

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