When you can…. discover Banff. Canadian Highway 1 has numerous wilderness over and under passes for bear, moose, elk, and other wild animals to cross the highway. These were designed to keep animals and humans safe from highway deaths and they have been working for 15 years. Animals have migratory routes and these passes have become their routes.

Trains have now become the largest killer of the animals. Trains hauling grain, corn, etc, spill bits as they rumble along the tracks and the animals get on the tracks to eat and are hit by an oncoming train. We saw a huge grizzly bear on the track having an afternoon snack. To eliminate this problem the train manufacturers are inventing powerful vacuums that will attach behind the caboose and suck up what the train has spilled.