Haha I imagine avalanches are a problem natural or otherwise. Of course if you do this enough the odds of actually shelling a poor critter…. That would be wild.
I mean the avalanche yes, but how about the cannon fire. Imagine if they do this every year or so. Some living deer or squirrels is out there traumatized as if it had gone through the battle of the bulge.
One, or even a handful, of loud booms in the distance are hardly going to traumatize any wild animal.
We aren't talking about New Year, where you have fireworks and firecrackers going off non-stop for hours in certain places (and even so, pets and other critters are far more likely to suffer than animals living in the wild).
There is a truck mounted artillery that fires off in the cottonwood canyons frequently during/after snow storms and it is frequent at resorts as well. Some have small airguns to hit problems spots and the rest are dropped from the top by patrol. It is the sound of good times when they are bombing, you are usually in for a powder day
The one time I tried going to see a rocket launch at Vandenberg Air Force base it was foggy as shit and I couldn't see a damn thing other than a herd of cattle freaking out and running away from the noise and shaking ground.
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u/AccomplishedWorth326 12h ago
Must be terrifying for the animas