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Post by Dutch on Nov 14, 2023 21:23:45 GMT -5
With the huge increase in frack water trucks running thru Western Tioga and Potter, they are slaughtering the local deer. In a 20 mile stretch I travel, I saw more road kills than in the 180 mile trip home.
Dead bear on the side this morning as well.
Those water trucks are running constantly, 24/7. The numbers of trucks in nothing like I ever saw up there. They are completing a water facility outside Galeton and that's also part of the traffic, but they are getting water various places.
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Post by moosemike on Nov 14, 2023 21:38:38 GMT -5
Sad
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Post by bud16057 on Nov 15, 2023 6:05:54 GMT -5
With the huge increase in frack water trucks running thru Western Tioga and Potter, they are slaughtering the local deer. In a 20 mile stretch I travel, I saw more road kills than in the 180 mile trip home. Dead bear on the side this morning as well. Those water trucks are running constantly, 24/7. The numbers of trucks in nothing like I ever saw up there. They are completing a water facility outside Galeton and that's also part of the traffic, but they are getting water various places. Been pretty bad in western pa as well. Averaging at least 1 fresh roadkill everyday for the past 2 weeks on my 10 mile drive between home and work. |
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Post by ridgecommander on Nov 15, 2023 7:39:17 GMT -5
It is what it is. Roadkill isn't going to become a factor that impacts populations.
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Post by dougl on Nov 15, 2023 9:29:16 GMT -5
I would say that it has more to do with an increase in the numbers of deer vs the number of water trucks.My own deer claims have steadily risen over the past several years.When I run a quote,it's very rarely to not have a deer claim come up in the past 5 years.
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Post by ridgecommander on Nov 15, 2023 12:14:17 GMT -5
I would say that it has more to do with an increase in the numbers of deer vs the number of water trucks.. Agreed. |
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Post by Dutch on Nov 15, 2023 12:37:23 GMT -5
I would say that it has more to do with an increase in the numbers of deer vs the number of water trucks.My own deer claims have steadily risen over the past several years.When I run a quote,it's very rarely to not have a deer claim come up in the past 5 years. OMG no. The water truck traffic this year is insane. They must be refracking wells. It is absolutely crazy. Like I said, I drove 180 miles home and barely saw roadkills |
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Post by dougl on Nov 15, 2023 15:03:53 GMT -5
That's because all the deer are once again in 2G and 3A lol.Most traffic will mean more dead deer but so will more deer.
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Post by rusty on Nov 16, 2023 6:46:18 GMT -5
I think most of the state has far too many deer. I blame posted property and lack of hunters.
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Post by acorn20 on Nov 16, 2023 10:56:07 GMT -5
I had an appointment up in Carlisle yesterday and was amazed at the number of deer and blood spots along Interstate 81. I noticed a lot of large deer with the head and neck removed as well as some nice fat does. On the way home at about 2:30, just above Shippensburg, I noticed two large does along with the largest buck I've seen in years about 75 yards off of I-81 standing in a large, open field. Traffic was horrible and just hope he didn't attempt to chase them across to the woods on the other side of the interstate.
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Post by dennyf on Nov 20, 2023 14:17:29 GMT -5
Last week on 81 here, five dead deer within a one mile stretch before Rt. 114. Dead ones on the parallel Rt. 944 as well.
l-80 in the early 80s looked like a slaughter house, between Phillipsburg and the Ohio line. Same for the last stretch of Rt. 15 from Blossburg to the NY line, when it opened.
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