Caltrans and NPS Retrofit Project Helps Wildlife Cross
Highway 118
from National Park Service (excerpt)
This excerpt comes from an article on new strategies to protect
wildlife that live near busy roadways. The concept of "wildlife
crossings" has gained popularity throughout the world as
governments and citizens work together to create pathways to
protect wildlife as they travel from place to place. These pathways
range from bridges, overhead paths and in this case, culverts. It is
an idea that benefits both human and wildlife.
(1) Wildlife, large and small, are getting some help from their
biologist friends at the California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) and the National Park Service (NPS) to cross a dozen-
mile stretch of State Route 118, a two-lane highway in Ventura
County.
(2) At the heart of the mitigation project are two goals: to create
more habitat connectivity for diverse species of wildlife and to keep
animals from becoming roadkill.
(3) The decade-long collaboration has led to retrofitting¹ five
drainage culverts to make them accessible for wildlife and adding
fencing to funnel animals to them. Overall, the effort has involved
an initial year-long study of wildlife movement, mortality, and
crossing use, then the acquisition of funds for the retrofits followed
by the construction work of modifying the culverts and adding
fencing, and finally post-construction wildlife monitoring.
(4) The retrofits are mostly complete and are now being monitored
by wildlife biologists using remote cameras to assess how well their
efforts have succeeded. As many as 10,000 images are being
captured each month by remote cameras.
Select the correct answer.
What is the meaning of adverse as it is used in paragraph 7?
A. strange
OB. opposite
OC. harmful
OD. unexpected
O