When black bears’ natural food supply is altered by human habits or abnormal weather patterns, they find easy calories in urban spaces. This can lead to more encounters between people and bears.

Every two and a half miles of barbed wire is responsible for killing one deer, elk or pronghorn a year, one study estimated.

Wildlife and vehicle collisions happen too often in Colorado. So much so, the state is investing tens of millions of dollars to create safe animal crossings. This includes an overpass on I-25 in Douglas County that’s one of the largest in the world. In the third installment of our series Crossing Paths, KUNCs Stephanie Daniel reports, residents in Northern Colorado are stepping up too.