Photo: Phil Hardberger Park
Texas is building wildlife crossings, lots of them, to help protect both animals and humans. In San Antonio, the new Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge was unveiled in the spring of 2021. Measuring some 150 feet in both length and width, the structure arches gently over the traffic on the six-lane Wurzbach Parkway below. The express purpose of this wildlife crossing is to join the two sides of Phil Hardberger park and provide safe passage for both people and the countless wild animals that pass through its 330 wooded acres. In the south Texas Rio Grande Valley, underpasses have been built to protect Ocelots, whose numbers have declined in the face of habitat loss, fur trapping, and car collisions. So far the Texas Department of Transportation has built 33 wildlife crossings and has another 23 in the planning stages.
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