EAGLE, Colo.—Colorado closed seven miles of a busy mountain interstate so 10 wayward elk and deer could be herded off the median and into safer country.
Interstate 70 was closed both directions for more an hour on Friday about 120 miles west of Denver.
Randy Hampton of the state Division of Wildlife says eight elk and two deer spent nearly a week on the median, which is about 100 yards wide in that stretch, but wildlife officers feared they’d eventually be struck and killed by traffic.
More than 40 people and two dozen trucks from state and local police, highway and fire departments helped herd the animals through a hole that wildlife officers cut in a fence.
Traffic was diverted onto a parallel two-lane highway till I-70 was reopened.
