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The National Park Service hopes to modify or replace all eight miles of boundary fence at Craters of the Moon by the Centennial of the National Park System in 2016. New fencing will adopt designs intended to allow safer crossing by pronghorn, which do not readily jump fences and have particular difficulty crossing the mesh wire fences installed decades ago to exclude sheep. The new fencing design includes markers to improve the visibility of wire strands to wildlife, including sage grouse, and reduce wildlife collisions.
"This multi-year project removes or modifies fencing in an important pronghorn migration corridor", said Dan Buckley, Superintendent at Craters of the Moon.
"This multi-year project removes or modifies fencing in an important pronghorn migration corridor", said Dan Buckley, Superintendent at Craters of the Moon.