A different perspective...
@breadandcircuses Yah.
When I worked in the bush in northern ontario it was clear that wherever a road went, the predators used that road to alter the territory in which they roam. It changed the Entire dynamics of the habitats it went through.
For example, this link is from Alberta Canada re bear populations and roads:
https://bioone.org/journals/ursus/volume-2019/issue-30e2/URSUS-D-18-00016.2/Effects-of-roads-and-motorized-human-access-on-grizzly-bear/10.2192/URSUS-D-18-00016.2.full