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Listen to learn about the wonders of wildlife crossings
Rocky Mountain Wild is working to build public awareness about wildlife vehicle collisions along the I-70 Mountain Corridor with the intent of supporting the construction of wildlife crossing structures in the region. Our Wild I-70 Audio Tour is a free app that travelers can listen to in real time as they travel the corridor.
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What is the I-70 Audio Tour?
If you live in Colorado, you travel the I-70 mountain corridor. This 144 mile stretch of road, from Golden to Glenwood Springs, takes us to the mountains to hike, bike, ski, shop, vacation, and work. It is a vital part of our Colorado lifestyle. But, most of us rarely think about how this road impacts the wildlife and wild lands we are traveling to see.
The Wild I-70 Audio Tour introduces listeners to the wildlife and environments beyond their windshield. Quirky stories, unusual facts, and science help explain how lynx, wolves, humans, and more all use this important movement corridor.
Take the Tour:
The audio tour is designed to play automatically on your smartphone, hands-free for a safe and educational experience! But first, you need to download the tour.
Download the tour in these easy steps:
- Download the izi.Travel app on Google Play or the Apple Store;
- Search izi.Travel for the Wild I-70 Audio Tour;
- Download the tour to your phone to play without Internet or phone connection. Start the tour and the segments will play automatically when you reach a GPS triggered tour point.
Or, just listen to the segments from the comfort of your home!
In Colorado, I-70 is one of the largest and most dangerous roadways for wildlife, bisecting major migration routes with four to six lanes of high-speed traffic and concrete dividers. Each year, over 300 animals are hit trying to cross this road. But thankfully there are solutions. Through this audio tour, you will learn how you can help wildlife safely cross the road, and much, much more. Buckle up, let’s go!
Segment of the Wild I-70 Audio Tour
How you can support this work, directly.
There are three main ways you can take action:
Sign the pledge to show you support the I-70 Wildlife Byway and connected landscapes across Colorado.
Help identify wildlife by becoming a community scientist!
Reduce traffic by getting to the mountains without using your car.
This project took a community.
The Wild I-70 Audio Tour mixes art with science to raise awareness about what it takes to get wildlife safely across the road. Each audio story is a unique collaboration that contains content from wildlife experts, music from Colorado-based bands, and photos from nationally recognized photographers.
A huge thank you to everyone who made it possible!
The Team:

Erica Prather (she/her), Producer and Writer
Erica Prather is a Rocky Mountain Wild supporter who inhabits two worlds – the arts and the sciences. She merges these two disciplines into “Artivism” projects such as the Wild I-70 Audio Tour. As a producer, Erica draws upon her 10+ years of editorial experience, arts writing, podcast editing, and film production. She also draws upon experiences in her science-based adventures as a naturalist guide in Alaska, a conservation trail team member with Environment Agency of Iceland, and science teacher in Seoul, South Korea – all experiences that involve interpretation. Erica is driven to galvanize Americans to both love and defend their public lands.

Stephen Brackett (he/him), Narration
Stephen is a performer with Denver-based hip-hop band The Flobots, dedicated to creating, performing, and finding anthems for a better world. Formed in 2005, the Flobots have released three full-length albums, toured internationally, collaborated with Denver-based contemporary ballet company Wonderbound, and formed Youth on Record, a non-profit to advance the skills of at-risk young musicians in the Denver area. Stephen is a life-long learner.

Paige Singer (she/her), Science Advisor
Born and raised on the western slope of Colorado, Paige spent her childhood acquiring a lasting love of Colorado’s wildlife and wild places. Today, as our Conservation Ecologist, Paige specializes in maintaining and restoring wildlife corridors throughout our region. She has spent countless hours alongside some of Colorado’s busiest roads, clambering through culverts and under bridges, investigating potential safe crossing opportunities for wildlife, advocating for new crossing locations, and monitoring the wildlife that could potentially use them. She has a particular fondness for carnivores, including Canada lynx, wolverines and other spirited members of the mustelid family.

Tehri Parker (she/her), Program Manager
Born and raised in Colorado, Tehri grew up listening to John Denver and trying to hand feed ground squirrels at the family cabin near Red Feather Lakes. (Hey, don’t judge her, it was the 1970’s.) After a brief period studying Radio and TV broadcasting, she stumbled upon her life passion – Environmental Education – earning a M.A. and Ph.D in the field from the University of Minnesota. Tehri has over 15 years experience managing successful nonprofit organizations. She has a nerdy love for spreadsheets and financial reports.

Kevin Larkin (he/him), Sound Mixing, Mastering, Creation
Kevin is a producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of Denver-based band Chimney Choir. The band has written two ballets for contemporary dance company Wonderbound, performed at Ted-X Boulder, and were awarded a Colorado Career Advancement Award for their 5th album [Dream], which was presented by Colorado Public Radio in 2016. With large support from the Denver arts community, Chimney Choir was also asked to lead the Colorado Creative Industries 2015 Detour project. Kevin has produced original scores for two Colorado-based films, theatre productions, and was a recipient of a Colorado Career Advancement Award for his personal projects in 2017.

Chris Talbot (they/them), Graphic and Web Design
Chris is a fine artist, graphic designer, and zinester in Denver. They’ve created a number of websites including this one, Mid-State Sisters of Skate, Friends of Wolf Creek, Pika Partners, and Colorado Bat Watch; logos for clients including this one, Midwest Renewable Energy Association, Colorado Pika Project, Colorado Bat Watch, and Colorado Corridors Project; and illustrations ranging from quirky animals on skates for Mid-State Sisters of Skate to species identification illustrations for Colorado Corridors Project to technical illustrations for Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s training manuals.
Program content from scientists, poets, and educators, including:
- Aaron Hall, Defenders of Wildlife
- Jovan Mays, former Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado, and National Poetry Slam Champion
- Ashely Nettles, US Forest Service
- Eric Odell, Colorado Parks and Wildlife
- Mike Phillips, Turner Endangered Species Fund
- Zack Rago, Chasing Coral
- Paige Singer, Rocky Mountain Wild
- Joe Walter, Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Sounds and music from Colorado bands, including:
Photography from artists, including:
- James Beissel
- John Fielder
- Steve Gadomski
- Andrea Lauritzen
- Joe Lewandowski, CPW
- Molly McCormick
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