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Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act & Moving Ahead For Progress In The 21st Century (MAP-21) Synopsis of Wildlife Provisions

A brief analysis of wildlife corridor protections in two federal transportation laws. A watershed event, MAP-21 is the first national transportation law to weave throughout its programs authority for state, federal and tribal managers, and researchers to reduce the number of motorist collisions with wildlife and improve connectivity among habitats disrupted by roads. These provisions

Integrated Adaptive Design for Wildlife Movement Under Climate Change

This paper argues that proactive, anticipatory planning and evidence-based, integrated highway-impact mitigation strategies are needed. Specifically, wildlife-crossing infrastructure should emphasize an integrated and adaptive approach to constructing innovative, modular, and potentially moveable structures that can be transferred from one location to another as monitoring of habitats and wildlife needs indicate.

Adapting to Change in the Crown of the Continent: An Ecosystem Scale Approach to Collaborative Management

This publication shares the Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent’s stories and lessons from its work to build a support network to help communities work together to adapt to climate change.

Development of Sustainable Strategies Supporting Transportation Planning and Conservation Priorities across the West

Recognizing the transportation sector as an important end-user of the regional and state-level CHATs, WGA and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) entered into an agreement in 2013 to identify opportunities to increase the use of CHATs, and other state and regional digital wildlife information, in transportation planning and project implementation. This report is the culmination

Highway Mitigation for Wildlife in Northwest Montana

This report investigates the potential impacts of future housing development, in the Flathead and Lincoln counties of Montana, on traffic to determine where increased traffic from housing development will impact habitat connectivity for large carnivores.

Wildlife Connectivity: Fundamentals for Conservation Action

This report provides a high-level summary of the fundamentals of wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity. It clarifies the terms used to describe connectivity; explains and provides tangible examples of corridors and linkages and how they work; describes the various methods, tools and models for identifying key connectivity linkages and wildlife corridors; and provides examples of

Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent: Connecting People to Sustain and Enhance Community, Culture, and Conservation

The Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent addresses changing land use and climate in one of the largest intact landscapes in North America. Home to diverse stakeholders, this northern Rocky Mountain ecosystem bridges the U.S. and Canada, including Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park.

Where People and Wildlife Intersect: Prioritizing Mitigation of Road Impacts on Wildlife Connectivity

This report seeks to provide decision support in answering the crucial question of where to mitigate roads to yield the greatest positive impact for wildlife and people, creates an index of road risk to wildlife based on roadside carcass data, details specific roles that diverse stakeholders can play in the mitigation process, and highlight opportunities

A Landscape of Connectivity: Priority Corridors for Biodiversity and Communities in a Time of Climate Change

This report introduces high priority wildlife habitat regions in the United States, in addition to the major wildlife corridors that connect them.

Challenges and Opportunities for Large Landscape-Scale Management in a Shifting Climate: The Importance of Nested Adaptation Responses Across Geospatial and Temporal Scales

Drawing from the Center’s experience in collaborative forest restoration and management, this report examines the challenges and opportunities relating to climate adaptation implementation and larger scale conservation by focusing on specific lessons learned from a landscape-scale, on-the-ground project within the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

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