The factors that are most likely to produce moose-vehicle collisions, a new study found, are evening darkness, winter and snow adjacent to the road that is less than about 4 feet deep. Via AlaskaBeacon
Within those winter numbers is a revelation: Collisions are much more numerous in the evening-commute hours than in the pre-dawn morning-commute hours, even though both periods are dark.“Is it a person thing, or is it a moose thing?” he said.
Another difference revealed was Alaska’s more accentuated seasonal pattern for elevated collision risks. In British Columbia, which is farther south and therefore subject to less midwinter darkness, the likelihood of vehicle-moose collisions was less than half that in Alaska during the December to February period, the study found.
The study also used analysis of snow patterns over four decades in 2.2 million square miles of Arctic-boreal habitat, motor-vehicle traffic statistics from Alaska and the Canadian regions and statistics on known collisions. It takes a broad view of collisions across a large geographic region. Though it includes information about collisions within Anchorage, it does not specify whether there are differences between the state’s biggest city and other regions, Cunningham said.
Moose are moving away from areas that are getting deep snow, “and that gets them into trouble,” Joly said.
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