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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Department of Transportation wants to put fences up along a stretch of Interstate 80 where more than 200 deer, elk and moose have been hit and killed in recent years.
The agency is proposing to use about $400,000 in federal stimulus funds for the project in Parleys Canyon, which connects Salt Lake City and Park City.
The 8-foot-high wire fences are designed to keep animals off the interstate.
Doug Sakaguchi, a biologist with the state Division of Wildlife Resources, says between 2005 and 2008, at least 214 deer have been killed on a nine-mile stretch along with 12 elk and 21 moose.
State officials estimate about 10,000 deer are killed a year on state roads.
It hasn't been decided yet which stretches of the canyon would get the fencing.
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