Federal Agency Planning for Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity: A Compendium
A compendium of Federal management plans related to habitat connectivity, wildlife corridors, and regional policies.
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Federal Natural Resource Agencies Responding to Climate Change
A compendium of United States organizational efforts with the potential to incorporate natural resource adaptation science, strategies and actions in response to climate change.
Cost–Benefit Analyses of Mitigation Measures Aimed at Reducing Collisions with Large Ungulates in the United States and Canada: A Decision Support Tool
Wildlife-vehicle collisions, especially with deer, elk, and moose are numerous and have shown an increasing trend over the last several decades in the United States and Canada. This provides in depth cost-benefit analysis of wildlife-vehicle collisions, introducing a valuable decision making tool for determining mitigation measures to reduce ungulate–vehicle collisions.
A Checklist for Ecological Management of Landscapes for Conservation
This article makes an assessment of the major themes and issues related to Ecology and Conservation. Highlights the importance of landscape mosaics, interactions between vegetation cover and vegetation configuration, using an appropriate landscape conceptual model, and maintaining the capacity to recover from disturbance; lay out management approaches in an adaptive framework; and propose areas for
Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions
This assessment of climate change addresses trends, case studies and scenarios. Bold initiatives and innovative measures spearheading a properly funded, well-insured clean energy transition can create the blueprint for a sustainable engine of growth for the 21st Century.
Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence
The Working Group on land use change and disease emergence grew out of a special colloquium that convened international experts in infectious diseases, ecology, and environmental health to assess the current state of knowledge and to develop recommendations for addressing these environmental health challenges.
An Assessment of Road Impacts on Wildlife Populations in U.S. National Parks
Researchers at the Western Transportation Institute synthesized information obtained from a system-wide survey of resource managers to assess the magnitude of their concerns on the impacts of roads on park wildlife. The results characterize current conditions and help identify wildlife-transportation conflicts.
Climate Change Is Really Bugging Our Forests
Discusses bark beetle impacts in the face of climate change and wildfire regimes, citing drought weakened forest stands as drivers of increased infestation and ultimately increased fuel availability.
Yellowstone to Yukon: Canadian Conservation Efforts and Continental Landscape/ Biodiversity Strategy
A primer for those who view the Rocky Mountain region north of the Canada-US border as pristine and secure. Introduces the Yellowstone to Yukon initiative to an audience outside of the conservation community.
