Virtual Learning

Wildlife & Roads: Challenges and Opportunities

• Nov 8, 2023
  Virtual Learning (desktop/laptop and mobile devices)

The above opportunity and more can be accessed by visiting the TLN Learning Management System (LMS).

Description

Roads and traffic challenge all forms of wildlife in their daily and seasonal movements. Small everyday actions to crown jewel projects by transportation agencies and their partners can help reduce wildlife-vehicle conflict and help wild animal populations survive in our human world. Learn how small actions and new funding opportunities can help these efforts.

Speaker(s)

Dr. Patricia Cramer is the founder and director of the Wildlife Connectivity Institute, an organization that helps promote science and actions to reduce wildlife-vehicle conflict and protect and restore wildlife movement across the landscape. Over the past 19 years she has monitored over 100 wildlife crossing structures and existing structures across the western U.S. The results of these studies have aided Departments of Transportation in designing the most cost-effective structures for a variety of wildlife species. She works with Departments of Transportation to plan for wildlife concerns, with modeling of crash and carcass data, incorporation of ecological information, and collaborative team work. Her projects for 14 departments of transportation, the National Cooperative Highway Transportation Program, and Federal Highways Administration have won multiple awards from transportation agencies, the Wildlife Society, the Denver Zoo, and the Mule Deer Foundation. Dr. Cramer is the nation's leader in wildlife mitigation in the face of roads.

Target Audience

All staff.