How will the snakes, frogs and salamanders cross the Garden State Parkway?
Through tunnels - if they can find them.
As part of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's $135 million plan to widen the highway from two lanes to three between Toms River and Manahawkin, it has set aside $9 million to build tunnels that would allow various critters to cross the highway without the danger of being hit by traffic.
The tunnels are intended to help timber rattlesnakes, northern pine snakes, Pine Barrens tree frogs, Cope's gray tree frogs and eastern tiger salamanders, all critters whose habitat would be disturbed by the widening. All the animals are on federal or state threatened or endangered species lists.
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