Banff National Park of Canada

Park Management

Trans-Canada Highway Twinning

Table of Contents | Introduction | Current Twinning | Highway Fencing & Wildlife Crossings

Highway Fencing and Wildlife Crossings


Technology Transfer, 1996 - 2007

Published articles and books
To the top Submitted

Ament, R., A.P. Clevenger, O Yu & A. Hardy. Accepted with revisions. An assessment of road impacts on wildlife populations in U.S. National Parks. Environmental Management.

Gunson, L., A.P. Clevenger, J.A. Bissonette. Accepted with revisions. Limited applications of wildlife-vehicle collisions analyses for mitigation planning due to spatial inaccuracy. Conservation Biology.

To the top Published

Clevenger, A.P. & J. Wierzchowski. 2006. Maintaining and restoring connectivity in landscapes fragmented by roads. Pages 502-535. In Connectivity Conservation (Eds. K. Crooks, M. Sanjayan). Cambridge University Press.

Huijser, M.P., & A.P. Clevenger. 2006. Habitat and corridor function rights-of-way. Pages 233-254. In: The ecology of transportation: managing mobility for the environment. J. Davenpart & J.L. Davenport (eds). Springer, London, UK.

NRC (National Research Council). 2005. Assessing and managing the ecological impacts of paved roads. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. (authors: Gunderson, L, Clevenger, A, Cooper, A, Dale, V, Evans, L, Evink, G, Fahrig, L, Haynes, K, Kober, W, Lester, S, Redford, K, Strand, M, Wagner, P, Yowell, J.)

Hansen, M. & A.P. Clevenger. 2005. The influence of disturbances and habitat on the frequency of non-native plant species along transportation corridors. Biological Conservation 125:249-259.

Clevenger, A.P. 2005. Conservation value of wildlife crossings: measures of performance and research directions. GAIA 14:124-129. (www.oekom.de/gaia).

Clevenger, A.P. & N. Waltho. 2005. Performance indices to identify attributes of highway crossing structures facilitating movement of large mammals. Biological Conservation 121:453-464.

Chruszcz, B., Clevenger, A.P., Gunson, K. & Gibeau, M.L. 2003. Relationships among grizzly bears, highways and habitat in the Banff-Bow Valley, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81:1378-1391.

Clevenger, A.P., B. Chruszcz, & K. Gunson 2003. Spatial patterns and factors influencing small vertebrate fauna road-kill aggregations. Biological Conservation 109:15-26.

Forman, R.T.T., Sperling, D., Bissonette, J., Clevenger, A., Cutshall, C., Dale, V., Fahrig, L., France, R., Goldman, C., Heanue, K., Jones, J., Swanson, F., Turrentine, T. & Winter, T. 2002. Road ecology: Science and solutions. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Little, S.J., Harcourt, R.G. & Clevenger, A.P. 2002. Do wildlife passages act as prey-traps? Biological Conservation 107:135-145.

Clevenger, A.P., Wierzchowski, J., Chruszcz, B., & Gunson, K. 2002. GIS-generated expert based models for identifying wildlife habitat linkages and mitigation passage planning. Conservation Biology 16:503-514.

Gibeau, M.L, Clevenger, A.P., Herrero, S & Wierzchowski, J. 2002. Grizzly bear response to human development and activities in the Bow River watershed, Alberta. Biological Conservation 103:227-236.

Clevenger, A.P., Chruszcz, & Gunson, K. 2001. Drainage culverts as habitat linkages and factors affecting passage by mammals. Journal of Applied Ecology 38:1340-1349.

Clevenger, A.P., McIvor, M., McIvor, D., Chruszcz, B. & Gunson, K. 2001. Tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, movements and mortality on the Trans-Canada highway in southwestern, Alberta. Canadian Field-Naturalist 115:199-204.

Clevenger, A.P., Chruszcz, B. & Gunson, K. 2001. Highway mitigation fencing reduces wildlife-vehicle collisions. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:646-653.

Gloyne, C.C. & Clevenger, A.P. 2001. Cougar use of wildlife crossing structures on the Trans- Canada highway in Banff National Park, Alberta. Wildlife Biology 7:117-124.

Clevenger, A.P. & Waltho, N. 2000. Factors influencing the effectiveness of wildlife underpasses in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Conservation Biology 14:47-56.

To the top Theses

Caryl, F.M. 2003. Ungulate mortality on a forested highway. MSc thesis, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 42 pp. [Supervised]

Hansen, M. 2000. Road impacts on plants - spread of introduced species in Banff National Park, Canada MSc thesis. Uppsala University, Sweden.

Goldthorpe, G. 2000. Reducing the impacts of highways on large carnivores. MSc thesis. University of East Anglia, UK, 45 pp.

Gloyne, C.C. 1999. Cougars and roads: their use of wildlife crossing structures on the Trans- Canada highway, in Banff National Park, through analysis of their tracks. MSc thesis. University of East Anglia, UK, 65 pp.

To the top Reports to Parks Canada & Alberta Sustainable Resource Development

Clevenger, A.P., Chruszcz, B., Gunson, K., & Wierzchowski, J. 2002. Roads and wildlife in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks - Movements, mortality and mitigation.Final Report (October 2002). Report prepared for Parks Canada, Banff, Alta.

Clevenger, A.P., Chruszcz, B., Gunson, K., & Brumfit, M. 2002. Highway mitigation monitoring - Three Sisters Parkway Interchange. Final report. Alberta Environment, Canmore, Alberta.

To the top Non-peer reviewed articles

Clevenger, A.P. 2003. Movements, mortality and mitigation : an overview of the Final Report on Roads and Wildlife in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Research Links 11:2, 16-20. (Summer/Autumn).

Clevenger, A.P., McIvor, M. & McIvor, D., Chruszcz, B. & Gunson, K. 2000. Mass movements and mortality of tiger salamanders on the Trans-Canada highway in southwestern, Alberta. Research Links 8:4, 8-9. (Autumn/Winter).

Gloyne, C. & A.P. Clevenger. 1999. Cougars make tracks for wildlife passages on the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park. Research Links 7:4, 12-13. (Autumn/Winter).

Clevenger, A.P. 1999. Ecological effects of roads in the Bow River Valley, Alberta. Banff Park Research Updates, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Clevenger, A.P. 1998. Roads, wildlife & public safety in Banff National Park. Safety Counselor 22:8-10.

Clevenger, A.P. 1997. Highway effects on wildlife in Banff National Park. Research Links 5:1-2.

Clevenger, A.P. & K. Wells (eds.). 1997. Proceedings of the Second Roads, Rails and the Environment Workshop. Columbia Mountains Institue of Applied Ecology, Revelstoke, B.C. 100 pp.

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