This report provides a synthesis of the impacts of road networks on social and ecological systems. It summarizes the ecological and social consequences of transportation development and offers proven methods to mitigate negative impacts on ecological and human systems.
This booklet summarizes the benefits and challenges to investing effort and funding to support a nationwide commitment to a systematic network of wildlife crossing structures to increase driver and animal safety.
The Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent’s application of a social-ecological performance evaluation framework. This allowed authors to provide a means of evaluating the effectiveness of network governance in large landscape conservation.
Briefly introduces adverse effects of roadways on wildlife, proposes researched solutions, and informs the reader of ways to get involved in implementing said solutions.
This report identifies short sections of highway that present the highest risk of collisions between vehicles and large ungulates during fall. It utilizes data on the frequency of wildlife carcasses recorded along highways by the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) as an indicator of the relative risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) across Montana. It aims
To identify which land units are most important for sustaining structural connectivity, authors used the composite map of corridors to evaluate connectivity priorities in two ways: 1) among land units outside of the pool of large core protected areas and; 2) among units administratively protected as Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) or Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs).
This article discusses that the imperative to conserve large or complex systems requires the social pre-conditions be established to develop trust and common ground to maintain conservation and science at scales directly relevant to the systems in question. A coupling of locally based approaches, in a networked framework across vast ecosystems, not only influence conservation,
This report is a compilation of federal and state policies that have direct or indirect implications for wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity conservation. It provides a broad set of policy-setting activities, such as legislation, executive orders, secretarial orders, strategies, and memoranda, by the executive or legislative branches of state or federal governments.
The Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (COTC) is one of the only large, relatively intact ecosystems remaining in North America and serves as a stronghold for native wildlife in the Rocky Mountain region. This briefing exposes the Glacier-Great Bear Connectivity Conservation Area (GGBCCA) as a glaring exception to this otherwise well protected and connected region.
Guidance and best practices for connectivity planning, including examples from case studies in forest planning. Resources associated with the case studies are listed in the references section. We suggest using this guide in tandem with Planning for Diversity, a companion publication that addresses the overarching conservation framework of the 2012 Planning Rule.
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