The $350 Million Federal Plan to Reduce Animal Road Deaths and Create Wildlife Corridors

Habitat connectivity is one goal of the 30x30 plan, a global effort to conserve 30 percent of lands and waters by 2030.

A mule deer peers through the brush at Maple Dell Scout Camp, outside Payson, Utah, on May 9, 2018. George Frey/Getty Images

During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Dec. 6, Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) spoke numerous times about a road trip he took with his wife over Thanksgiving when they listened to a radio countdown of the best Beatles songs. But he also talked about the troubling sight of roadkill on the side of roads, including a deer.

“That still happens,” he said, and it underscores the importance of the committee’s work.