From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MENTOR, Ohio––Drivers can
avoid roadkills and stay out of accidents,
suggests data gathered since 1993 by Mentor,
Ohio transportation department employee
Cathy Strah, by looking out for rabbits in
spring; Canada geese, raccoons, skunks,
and squirrels in late summer; and deer in fall.
Adding 1997 data to the four-year
totals analyzed in the March 1997 edition of
ANIMAL PEOPLE mostly confirms previous
findings. Strah has now recorded particulars
of 3113 roadkills picked up by Mentor
town crews, an average of 622 per year. The
lowest annual total was 456 in 1996, after the
harsh winter of 1995-1996; the highest was
778, a year earlier; and the 1997 total was
668, the closest yet to the norm.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service on February 12 agreed to list
Canadian lynx as an endangered species in the continental
states, and to publish a lynx protection
plan by June 30, 1998.
USFWS, under pressure from loggers
and trappers, had repeatedly refused to list lynx,
despite the recommendations of staff biologists
who believe fewer than 100 remain south of the
Canadian border, in isolated pockets of Montana,
Idaho, Washington, and Maine. As lynx prefer to
den in old growth, the listing will probably mean
more restrictions on old growth logging. Trappers
may find their activity curtailed, as well. The
average auction price of lynx pelts is by far the
highest paid for the skin of any native American
species, due to scarcity. When located, however,
lynx––and bobcats, their close kin––are notoriously
easily enticed by dangling bait.

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