According to state officials, the Oregon Department of Transportation will get $33 million in federal financing to build a wildlife crossing across Interstate 5 in southwest Oregon.
The first-of-its-kind highway bridge will link the 114,000-acre biologically diverse protected Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which is divided by I-5 and located south of Ashland. Among the 300 species of birds, animals, reptiles, and amphibians that call the monument home are cougars, bears, elk, and deer.
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