Decision Support for Prioritizing Mitigation of Road Impacts on Western Governors’ Association Wildlife Corridors

This map service was developed to provide decision support for prioritizing opportunities to mitigate the impacts of roads on wildlife connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies. It provides spatially explicit information pertaining to modeled wildlife connectivity value across major roads, total wildlife mortality counts along major roads, carnivore mortality counts along major roads, the extent to which wildlife connectivity value and road mortality align, and potential priority sites for mitigation of road impacts on wildlife from diverse stakeholder perspectives.

In the report accompanying this map document, we also discuss potential opportunities for diverse stakeholders (including departments of transportation, state and federal land managers, land trusts, citizen groups, and conservation organizations with a variety of missions) to engage in and contribute to the mitigation process, which are highlighted through a series of case studies.

The report can be downloaded here:
www.largelandscapes.org/library
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