Resources

In this brief, released on the occasion of the UN Environment Programme’s Final Intergovernmental Consultations on Nature-Based Solutions (October, 2023), the Center explains why ecological corridors are essential for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The 2023 Annual Report features many of our activities, accomplishments, and partnerships from the past year. It highlights how, with your support, we are making strides to advance ecological connectivity for climate resilience worldwide through science, policy, practice, and collaboration. 

The US-191/MT-64 Wildlife & Transportation Assessment Key Findings describe 11 priority sites and recommendations to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect habitat along this gateway to Yellowstone.

The US-191/MT-64 Wildlife & Transportation Assessment describes 11 priority sites and recommendations to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect habitat along this gateway to Yellowstone. The goals of the Assessment are to identify areas with high levels of wildlife-vehicle collisions and those that are important to maintain wildlife movement, inform and support communities and agencies in decision-making, and recommend measures to improve road safety as well as habitat connectivity for both land and aquatic species. 

An overview of Colorado’s Senate Bill 22-151, which will create the Colorado Wildlife Safe Passages Fund to invest $5 million in measures to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect habitat fragmented by roads. This includes projects identified in Colorado Department of Transportation’s 10-year pipeline of 25 projects with wildlife infrastructure components, as well as projects identified by the Colorado Wildlife & Transportation Alliance, state agencies, and county or tribal governments. The fund would also provide a much-needed source of matching funds to leverage myriad federal grant opportunities available in the new infrastructure law.

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.