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> amount of uninterrupted wilderness.

Towns are not the problem, highways are. Specifically interstates and other roads built to that standards.

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Roads lead to towns. You might need to remove these towns before you could disconnect the roads.

Highways and interstates are problematic, yes, but they often take away lands in suburban areas as opposed to the wilderness.

You could just have dirt roads. The problem isn't the road per se it's the crazy fast cars on the road. If cars rode at 12mph like they do on dirt roads, at about the speed a deer can gallop, that's like 25x less kinetic energy and if you hit a deer it'll bump and keep going.

> If cars rode at 12mph like they do on dirt roads

Cars are often driven at 40mph and faster on dirt roads around here. Bigger dirt roads would see increased speeds.

Cars frequently drive 100 km/h on dirt roads. Particularly in places like rural South Dakota, where it's almost all dirt roads.

Here in Alberta I regularly do 80-100 km/h on dirt roads where conditions allow.

But random towns in the middle of nowhere are not connected by such highways.

Speaking as someone who ran over a deer a few months back on a smaller road that connects these community. All kinds of animals cross these roads regularly and usually without impediments, can't be said for an interstate.

There is now an effort to provide passage for animals across highways using overpasses/underpasses. Though not feasible everywhere, they are usually placed near known migration routes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_crossing

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