Keeping It Simple - Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads

                                         

     

Critter CrossingsLinking Habitats and Reducing Roadkill

                                                                                          

                                                                                          

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlifecrossings/intro.htm

Pups, ODOT and Journey

District 4: Donates fresh deer and elk roadkill to:

Keeping It Simple - ODOT's WILDLIFE PROJECTS

Region 1: Peregrine falcon nest boxes

Photos by Bob Sallinger

Region 1, 4 & 5 - Bat boxes on new bridges

Region 2 - Bat box near a new bridge

District 2A - Ivy removal

Region 4 - Wildlife passage in a new culvert

ODOT Region 1 Wildlife Hot Spot Study

• Intermediate scale, rapid-assessment approach, expert team meetings

• 8 subregion expert teams (based on maintenance districts)

• 22% all highways identified as wildlife hotspots• 86 hotspots; 6 high-priority• Prioritization mainly based on collision

frequency (qualitative)• Mostly deer-vehicle collisions, but also other

types of conflict areas• Roadkill data can refine findings

Example Results of Wildlife Hot Spot Study