Where people and wildlife intersect: prioritizing mitigation of road impacts on wildlife connectivity

Jul 25, 2014 (Last modified Nov 5, 2014)
Created by Meredith McClure
Where people and wildlife intersect: prioritizing mitigation of road impacts on wildlife connectivity

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These layers were developed to provide decision support for prioritizing opportunities to mitigate the impacts of roads on wildlife connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies.  They provide spatially explicit information pertaining to:
  • Modeled wildlife connectivity value across major roads
  • Wildlife risk index based on wildlife mortality counts by mile along major roads
  • Occurrence of carnivore mortalities by mile along major roads
  • Interactive decision support tool for exploring alignment of wildlife connectivity risk values
  • Reference layers (study area, major roads, and mile markers)
Based on these layers, 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 case studies.
 
The full report on the project objectives, methods, findings, discussion of mitigation opportunities, and case studies can be downloaded here:

Where People and Wildlife Intersect: Prioritizing Mitigation of Road Impacts on Wildlife Connectivity
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wildlife corridors, decision support tools, road ecology, mitigation, carnivore conservation, conservation prioritization, wildlife connectivity, road impacts
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Meredith McClure, Conservation Scientist, Center for Large Landscape Conservation

Rob Ament, Senior Conservationist & Road Ecology Program Manager, Center for Large Landscape Conservation & Western Transportation Institute

Tara Chesley-Preston, GIS Specialist, Center for Large Landscape Conservation

Thank you to our advisory partners and data providers:

John Pierce, Western Governors’ Association Wildlife Connectivity & Crucial Habitat Initiative Technical Team, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
 
Deborah Wambach & Bill Semmens, Montana Department of Transportation

Jim Williams & Rob Brooks, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
 
Gary Vecellio, Environmental Staff Biologist, Idaho Department of Fish & Game
 
Chris Servheen, Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator, United States Fish & Wildlife Service

Marcel Huijser, Road Ecologist, Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University

Thank you to our funders:

Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative

M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
The resources below are metadata records that are housed on the USGS ScienceBase site (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/) You will not be able to use these data sets directly within Data Basin. However, you can discover the data sets, and for many records, you can download or be linked to a download site for the data. In the future, we will be adding support for importing compatible data directly into Data Basin.

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Meredith McClure
Conservation Scientist with Center for Large Landscape Conservation

I am a Conservation Scientist with the Center for Large Landscape Conservation in Bozeman, MT. My role is to advance our science program, which aims to help our partner organizations and agencies focus their limited resources on conserving the most crucial corridors in the Northern Rockies. I also...