An hour of the day will be unceremoniously snatched away on Sunday as we “spring forward” to daylight saving time.
Last year, my research team showed that standard time leads to far more vehicles colliding with deer.
Vehicle strikes already kill millions of wild animals each year, and collisions with deer are the best documented because they are so common and damaging.
But traffic volumes are higher in the evening, and it’s hard for us to see things in the dark.
The hour-earlier sunset that comes with standard time is thus an expensive, traumatic way to control the deer population.
Persons:
It’s, it’s
Organizations:
Protection
Locations:
Maine, West, United States