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Rajaji National Park aerial view. The Dehradun route passes through these lovely forests, disturbing habitat and wildlife corridors. see the Shivalik mountain range - older than the Himalaya. See the craggy hills and ancient mountains of the Shivaliks, on the route that one takes from Muzaffarnagar or Saharanpur towards Dehradun town in Uttarakhand. This is a busy corridor that reaches the Uttarakhand state capital. See the streams and Sal and mixed forests of Rajaji National Park - all disturbed elephant and tiger habitat. With a planned elevated expressway through these forests, there will be tremendous pressure and further disturbance during construction but eventually the forest will be the better for a lower level of disturbance once the traffic rises above the level of the current r