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

This decision support tool 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.

This decision support tool can be downloaded here but is best viewed in Data Basin:
http://databasin.org/datasets/455ed2ee154b49ed9985c6410e74042b

The accompanying report can be downloaded here:
www.largelandscapes.org/library
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/folder/53d7d5d7e4b06f0f87b74285