Jen and I continued to work on our road kill/deer story this past week at KBIA, and I am proud to say that we are making progress.
On Tuesday, I was finally able to pin down somebody from the Missouri Department of Transportation who actually picks up animals on state maintained roads. We had been doing the run around with them for about a week, so I was so happy that we finally got a contact who gave us some good information.
We’ve talked to a lot of people for this story, and I doubt we will use everyone’s interview, so know it’s all about narrowing down that information. We’re still waiting for a few calls back from the last of our sources and are hoping to get some specific statistics from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Last weekend, I went out and got nat sound from Rock Bridge Park and from cars on the road, so hopefully that will suffice for our nat sound. I also have an interview this weekend with a biologist, so hopefully that’ll shed some light on the more scientific aspects of deer/car collisions.
On Thursday, we did a few more interviews and put some phone calls out there, but we also started writing, which I am very excited about. I do think that we have a lot more information than we need, so we’ll have to be conscious of that when writing or this story will be insanely long.
Anyway, after a slow start I think we’re going in the right direction and hopefully we can finish up this story during our shifts next week!
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