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| TEC7189 - Innovative Approaches to Wildlife/Highway Interactions |
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| Highways, as well as low volume roads, are often a major source of impact affecting wildlife on public and private lands. This course will teach state-of-the-art approaches for addressing wildlife highway interactions, providing participants with skills and resources that can be applied in highway project planning as well as enabling them to recognize innovative opportunities and solutions for projects that are already affecting wildlife. Topics include an overview of wildlife issues relative to existing highways and highway planning, differences in impacts and solutions between low volume and high volume roads, structural and non-structural solutions to wildlife mortality and habitat connectivity, and an introduction to available resources on wildlife/highway crossings and interactions. This course is taught through partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. |
| College Credit |
1 semester hour |
| Who Should Attend: |
This course is designed for wildlife biologists and/or engineers who need information on wildlife/highway interactions. The primary audience is wildlife refuge and other land managers who are dealing with highway and/or access road impacts on managed lands, as well as biologists and engineers responsible for reviewing project plans and permits. |
| Objectives: |
* Discuss how highways interact with terrestrial wildlife, including impacts;
* Utilize tools to identify and innovatively reduce wildlife impacts from highways;
* Discuss the highway project planning process, including large scale connectivity analyses; and
* Develop interdisciplinary contacts and networking opportunities. |
| Length: 3 days/24 hours |
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Availability: Annually |
Contact: |
Technical Training Manager |
Email: |
glenn gravatt@fws.gov |
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(304) 876-7456 |
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Last Updated: November 18, 2008
National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443-9713
Webmaster email: NCTC_webmaster@fws.gov |
