{"id":777339,"date":"2026-07-22T06:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:25:19","slug":"500-animals-have-used-i-395-wildlife-crossings-mainedot-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777339\/","title":{"rendered":"500 animals have used I-395 wildlife crossings, MaineDOT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BREWER, Maine (WABI) &#8211; The wildlife crossings on I-395 have been proven successful, according to the MaineDOT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said they have recorded more than 500 crossings over the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They say animals such as white-tailed deer, porcupines, gray squirrels, raccoons, snowshoe hares, and bobcats have used the crossings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Pair of porcupines walk along I;395 wildlife crossing.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IXQFUJIY25GNFEN7UXK43NRJ4I.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Pair of porcupines walk along I;395 wildlife crossing.(Maine DOT)<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Bobcat walks along I-395 wildlife crossing.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LTLTWFOV6RFW7EAZ7PENNALIEY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Bobcat walks along I-395 wildlife crossing.(Maine DOT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new Route 9 Connector has also significantly cut down heavy-traffic on local roads, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREWER, Maine (WABI) &#8211; The wildlife crossings on I-395 have been proven successful, according to the MaineDOT. Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[4,2408,4934,4932,4931,4933,4935,79,4930,201],"class_list":["post-777339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-science","tag-video-updates","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}