BULLLLLLLwinkle!! Traditional Cache
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A quick stop for a smiley along the way. Don’t make your stop quicker by hitting a moose — be alert, especially in the late afternoon or early morning.
These signs are not just for hanging cache containers on — “Bullwinkle” lives here.
The moose is the world's tallest, largest & heaviest extant species of deer & the only species in the genus Alces. It is also the tallest, & the second-largest, land animal in North America, falling short only of the American bison in body mass.
The New Brunswick Department of Transportation analyzed accident data from 1995 to 2000 & found a total of 4,239 deer-vehicle collisions & 1,482 moose-vehicle collisions over the 6 year period. This represented 8.6% of the total 66,279 vehicle accidents in NB over those 6 years, & translates to an annual average of 707 deer & 247 moose collisions. According to Statistics Canada (2003), NB’s motor vehicle registrations in 2000 were 562,563, therefore approximately 1 in every 796 NB drivers will hit a deer & 1 in 2278 drivers will hit a moose.
Deer- and moose-vehicle collisions are a significant concern on NB’s arterial highways. The costs incurred from the resulting damage to vehicles, driver injury or fatality, & animal injury or death are estimated to reach almost CA$14 million annually.
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