Resources

A brief analysis of wildlife corridor protections in two federal transportation laws. A watershed event, MAP-21 is the first national transportation law to weave throughout its programs authority for state, federal and tribal managers, and researchers to reduce the number of motorist collisions with wildlife and improve connectivity among habitats disrupted by roads. These provisions were continued in the FAST Act. 

This paper argues that proactive, anticipatory planning and evidence-based, integrated highway-impact mitigation strategies are needed. Specifically, wildlife-crossing infrastructure should emphasize an integrated and adaptive approach to constructing innovative, modular, and potentially moveable structures that can be transferred from one location to another as monitoring of habitats and wildlife needs indicate.

Guidance and best practices for connectivity planning, including examples from case studies in forest planning. Resources associated with the case studies are listed in the references section. We suggest using this guide in tandem with Planning for Diversity, a companion publication that addresses the overarching conservation framework of the 2012 Planning Rule. 

This report introduces high priority wildlife habitat regions in the United States, in addition to the major wildlife corridors that connect them.

Drawing from the Center’s experience in collaborative forest restoration and management, this report examines the challenges and opportunities relating to climate adaptation implementation and larger scale conservation by focusing on specific lessons learned from a landscape-scale, on-the-ground project within the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

The Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent addresses changing land use and climate in one of the largest intact landscapes in North America. Home to diverse stakeholders, this northern Rocky Mountain ecosystem bridges the U.S. and Canada, including Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park.

This report seeks to provide decision support in answering the crucial question of where to mitigate roads to yield the greatest positive impact for wildlife and people, creates an index of road risk to wildlife based on roadside carcass data, details specific roles that diverse stakeholders can play in the mitigation process, and highlight opportunities for each to engage in that process by working in partnership with transportation agencies.

This report investigates the potential impacts of future housing development, in the Flathead and Lincoln counties of Montana, on traffic to determine where increased traffic from housing development will impact habitat connectivity for large carnivores.

This report provides a high-level summary of the fundamentals of wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity. It clarifies the terms used to describe connectivity; explains and provides tangible examples of corridors and linkages and how they work; describes the various methods, tools and models for identifying key connectivity linkages and wildlife corridors; and provides examples of supportive policies that may be replicated or expanded to other jurisdictions.

The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Climate Change Strategic Plan represents an early step towards addressing the impacts of climate change on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. The purpose of this initiative is to improve the Tribal community and Natural Resources Department’s resiliency by effectively informing climate change impact planning decisions made by the Tribes. It is designed to initiate collectively-beneficial climate change impact mitigation and adaptation solutions.