Resources

This resource is a compilation of lessons learned and best practices in action by land trusts engaged in wildlife crossing structure projects, and includes many diverse examples and links to allow for further examination. This toolkit has the intention to inform and support land trusts that are less familiar with connectivity and wildlife crossing efforts and is is geared for those interested in better understanding the critical role that land trusts play in increasing wildlife crossings across the nation and in how land trusts already work with transportation-related projects.

Cascade-Siskiyou Connectivity Symposium summary report that identifies opportunities for connectivity conservation in five focus areas: Research & Monitoring, Land Use & Policy, Transportation & Infrastructure, Restoration & Stewardship, and Land Conservation & Outreach.

More than a dozen climate, wildlife, and road ecology experts from across the country wrote this consensus statement urging government officials at all levels to consider climate change when planning and constructing structures that help fish and wildlife cross under and over highways. As the appetite increases for solutions that improve wildlife migration and movement while reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions, there is a heightened need and opportunity for designing infrastructure that is sited and designed in ways that accommodate the current and anticipated impacts of climate change. Climate-informed wildlife crossings, including fish passage, would help both people and nature adapt.

This document is a compendium of key connectivity policies drawn from reviews previously published by the Center, as well as more recent connectivity policies promulgated in the years 2020-2021.

This memorandum identifies federal agency budget requests for Fiscal Year 2023 congressional appropriations for collaborative landscape conservation and habitat connectivity efforts.

The ongoing U.S. Forest Service recognition of the importance of ecological connectivity and migration corridors is aligned with Biden-Harris administration priorities, like the America the Beautiful Initiative and partnerships with States, Tribes, local communities, and willing private landowners to improve and enhance wildlife habitats, connectivity, migratory corridors, and biodiversity. Through this agency memo, National Forest System units and Regions are asked to consider the impacts of USFS actions on ecological connectivity and wildlife corridors and seek opportunities to enhance and integrate corridors/connectivity in national forest system management and collaborations.

The goal for this manual is to provide practical information for the implementation of mitigation measures that aim to: 1. Improve human safety through reducing collisions with large animals, including wild mammal species, feral species, and free-roaming livestock species, and 2. Improve or maintain habitat connectivity for terrestrial wildlife species through safe crossing opportunities.

This report, released by federal agencies, introduces a spatially explicit model that assesses sagebrush ecological integrity to plan a strategic, threat-based landscape conservation design. The report indicates a staggering 1.3 million acres of sagebrush rangeland are being lost annually. While climate change poses a threat, the diverse group of experts concluded that invasive grasses and wildfires significantly contributed to the loss of sagebrush rangeland.

This publication contains priority recommendations for effectively and respectfully conserving the terrestrial boundary between the US and Canada based on a series of four virtual Dialogue events held in 2021 with representatives from institutions and communities working near or across the boundary. The three transboundary conservation recommendations include: committing to a formal ethical agreement to transboundary conservation; empowering an equitable and sustainable standing advisory entity; and funding transboundary.

This report contains the collaborative, strategic vision for safeguarding and conserving the Appalachian Landscape, a globally significant region that faces pressing threats from climate change and increasing human development. As a result of a Climate Advisory Group (CAG) in 2021, conservation and environmental experts gathered to assess the Landscape’s current conservation status and establish realistic actions for expanding the region’s protections; building climate resilience; ensuring ecological integrity; and supporting affected communities—especially those communities economically dependent on the Landscape.