Roadkill is a far from innocent phenomenon and accident of routine travel. Instead, lethally aggressive and heedless driving habits, non-existent laws protecting animals, and extremely lax and ineffective police activity conspire to cause suffering and grisly death for countless animals throughout our roads and highway -- in rural, suburban, and highway environments. One prominent ecologist affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History, The Wildlife Conservation Society, and other organizations, Dr. Michael W. Klemens, called the suburban sprawl following construction of the US Interstate system a landmark event in the serious disturbance on North American ecosystems for its widespread and ecologically devastating effects. Those animal communities that remain in the so-called "fragmented" landscape created by our massive spider-web of paved roads face drivers who pay little heed to the lethally dangerous machines they are introducing to natural habitats. In fact they are instead fetishized, and turned into organic extensions of ego and body. Our photos document some of the more graphic results of Man's selfish and heedless on-road activities in the Natural world. We urge citizens to both pay attention to their wildlife neighbors and to press legislators to create new laws (see Below) to help end the tragedy and modern disgrace of the roadkill slaughter. And please SLOW DOWN. Contact us if you wish to help. Email rxbrummel@gmail.com.

Proposed Legislative and Other Reforms to Protect Wildlife from Roadkill Deaths