Enhancing the efficiency, sustainability, and safety of Alberta’s highways by systematically identifying priority road sections for mitigation measures to improve wildlife movement and reduce Animal Vehicle Collisions. This layer is part of a coupled AEP-AT decision support tool was developed that incorporates wildlife issues into future road development and highway upgrade projects, and links transportation planning into Alberta’s land use planning process. Based on RSF models developed by Nielsen, 2007, averaged between three seasons. Focal nodes developed using security areas we developed from AMBI Wall-to-wall Land Cover Inventory (2010) and Wall-to-Wall Human Footprint Inventory (2014).
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Miistakis Institute in partnership with Center for Large Landscape Conservation and Dr. Adam Ford.