What’s being done to keep cars from crashing into moose

That is the title of a story in MacLean's dated November 3, 2011.  Calling moose "an emotional, and frequently political, issue in Newfoundland", the story says that recent pilot projects put this province "on the cutting edge of efforts to tamp down on wildlife collisions". 

I think this way over bills the pilot projects which the government of Newfoundland has instituted too little, too late.

If the government wants to test out relatively new technology such as wildlife detection systems using infrared beams, then fine, by all means do pilot projects.  In the meantime, there is tried and proven technology - moose fences with and without under/overpasses - which have been in service and have proven their worth for the last 10 or 15 years in many parts of North America.  There is nothing unique about Newfoundland to indicate that fencing will not work here.  By all means erect moose fencing, but not through pilot projects, but on a serious scale at accident hotspots already identified by government.

Now that truly would put us on "the cutting edge of efforts to tamp down on wildlife collisions".  But it hasn't happened yet.