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I've lived in remote Ontario areas and I can't tell you how often I've come around a blind rock-cut corner only to find 4 moose 50' ahead, kneeling in the road licking salt.
I wish we could either switch to straight sand or find an environmentally sound option vs salt.
Agreed. Not only are moose drawn to the roadside, but we're salinating our lakes and rivers 🫤
A moose once licked my sister.
Møøse licks can be nasty, you know...
But he hardly knew her!
They usually lick cars in parking lots.
Maybe Parks Canada could put a bunch of salt licks out in the forest away from the roads?
$27 on Amazon. They make them for horses, sheep and cattle, why not moose?
I had the funny mental image of some intern at Parks Canada getting ahold of the Amazon account and putting in an order for 20,000 salt cubes for $27 each when they have literal metric truckloads of it already at bulk prices.
They have truckloads of it, but not in a lickable form factor. :)
Any form factor is lickable....
Well, that's a brand new sentence.
Only in Canada, eh?
So we gotta start mixing road salt with something super bitter and gross to animals but environmentally friendly, and not more expensive than salt.
In Germany and Austria, there was a tax on salt for cooking until recently (1993 and 1995, respectively). To avoid that people buy the cheap road salt and use it for cooking, such a bitter component was actually added, usually magnesium chloride (sometimes also capsaicin).
Many German sources still say you shouldn't eat road salt for that reason, so maybe this is still done (though it is of course possible, that those sources are just outdated).
Road salt isn’t processed as much and therefore isn’t safe for human consumption, at least some places are like this.
This reminds me of how during Prohibition in the United States, bootleggers started using industrial and medical alcohol to get around the ban. In response, the US government forced manufacturers to add poisons to all alcohol not meant for drinking. Over ten thousand people died, but hey, at least the Prohibitionists got to feel smugly superior, right?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The peculiar message comes as moose have been trekking onto highways to lick salt off of roads and passing vehicles, says Tracy McKay with Parks Canada.
McKay says Parks Canada puts out a warning every winter as moose venture down to highways to fuel their salt intake.
Roy Rea, an assistant professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, has been studying moose for 25 years, particularly why they come close to transportation corridors.
Rea says the large creatures search for salt in the winter because they need a lot of sodium to maintain their bodily functions.
With December and January being the darkest and often coldest months, Rea is warning drivers to be extra cautious while driving on highways.
"There's been a few projects in various places that have tried salt alternatives, but they tend to be more expensive or they don't work as well or both," she said, adding the warning is a way to preserve Canada's moose population.
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Feeling called out by this. I mean those cars are tasty.
Better yet quit covering the roads with salt, which corrodes vehicles and is bad for waterways.
I agree with you but what are they going to use to keep roads from being lethal in certain winter conditions?
And that's the problem. There are alternatives but until the feds actively push municipal/provincial gov'ts to change, they'll just keep using salt or liquid saline solutions.
Salt is the most effective and less damaging treatment for icy roads.
I'd be interested to hear how your supposed to stop the moose once it's decided its going to lick your car.
I think Parks Canada is saying cars shouldn't stop if/when they see moose either on or beside the road.
Doing 15-20 kms per hr going past them should be enough to deter the moose from licking the vehicle while in the middle of the highway.
This isn't world news
Oh man, there's a lot of people in Canada about to be real upset to find out they're not part of the world anymore.