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Symbol - Trans-Canada Highway Twinning

Trans-Canada Highway Twinning



The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project Report, 2002


RESEARCH

MONITORING OF THE WILDLIFE CROSSING STRUCTURES
Summary of wildlife use
Annual wildlife crossing structure use by carnivores
When do animals use the overpasses?
Do animals prefer wildlife overpasses to underpasses?
WILDLIFE MOVEMENTS ACROSS ROADS
Why do animals choose to cross at certain crossing structures?
How do small mammals get across the highway?
WILDLIFE MORTALITY ON ROADS
What animals are dying on the highways?
What are the characteristics of wildlife road-kills?
What are the characteristics small animal road-kills?
ARE WE REDUCING WILDLIFE ROAD-KILL?
Do fences reduce road-kill?
Unburied vs. buried fences – Which works better at keeping animals off the highway?
HOW DO WE KNOW IF THIS MITIGATION IS WORKING?
Is road mortality reduced?
Do Wildlife Crossing Structures work?
How to interpret wildlife crossing data

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