Habitat and Highways Links

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Non-Governmental Organizations
Academic / Research
Professional Associations
Information

GOVERNMENT

Department of Transportation Homepage

Keeping it Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads

Federal Highway Administration Homepage

Critter Crossings: Linking Habitats and Reducing Roadkill
This DOT/FHWA web site describes transportation's impacts on wildlife and highlights exemplary projects and processes that are helping to reduce these impacts.

Transportation and Climate Change Clearinghouse
This DOT web-based clearinghouse of information on transportation and climate change issues includes information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, analytic methods and tools, GHG reduction strategies, climate change impacts and adaptation, and approaches for integrating climate change considerations into transportation decision making.

National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse
The National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse (NTEC) is an information service sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. It provides professionals, policy makers, and citizens with timely and accurate information necessary to make well-informed decisions about transportation enhancements.

Directory of State Departments of Transportation

US Fish & Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System

US Forest Service

US Environmental Protection Agency

US National Park Service

US Army Corps of Engineers
USACEs mission is to provide quality, responsive engineering services to the nation including navigation, flood control, environmental protection, disaster response, military construction, and support for other Defense and federal agencies.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
This is the Committee which builds America; the Committee which oversees our nation's great highway, aviation, rail and maritime transportation systems; the Committee which constructs our environmental infrastructure, which oversees our Coast Guard, the Smithsonian Museum and all of our nation's public buildings. 

Thomas: The Ultimate Guide to Congress Federal Register

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NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

TransWild Alliance
The TransWild Alliance is a coalition of conservation advocacy organizations dedicated to reducing the impacts of highways on wildlife and natural resources.

WHISE  the Wildlife Highway Institute for Safety and Economy
Sand County Foundation and the Wisconsin Departments of Transportation and Natural Resources brought together leaders in insurance, highway safety, highway management and engineering, landscape ecology, local government, law enforcement, and related fields, from the US and Canada in Milwaukee in April 2000 to map out a strategy for cutting the number and severity of deer-vehicle crashes (DVCs).

Surface Transportation Policy Project
The goal of The Surface Transportation Policy Project is to ensure that transportation policy and investments help conserve energy, protect environmental and aesthetic quality, strengthen the economy, promote social equity, and make communities more livable. We emphasize the needs of people, rather than vehicles, in assuring access to jobs, services, and recreational opportunities.

Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads (CPR)
Wildlands CPR works to protect and restore wildland ecosystems by preventing and removing roads and limiting motorized recreation. We are a national clearinghouse and network, providing citizens with tools and strategies to fight road construction, deter motorized recreation, and promote road removal and revegetation. We seek to protect native ecosystems and biodiversity by recreating an interconnected network of roadless public wildlands.

Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth works with conservative taxpayer groups and community activists across the nation to oppose many unneeded and unwise roadways.

The Humane Society of the United States: Give Wildlife a Brake
Suggestions for driving with wildlife in mind.

Natural Resources Defense Council: Smart Growth
Through a range of projects, NRDC is working on smart-growth solutions that can help curtail sprawl and build more sustainable communities for the 21st century.

Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign Environmental Defense - Transportation
From influencing policy at the national, state and regional level to organizing local carpools, Environmental Defense focuses on the best, most equitable way for America to get from here to there without harming the environment.

American Wildlands
American Wildlands is a science-based non-profit conservation organization with a 22-year history of wilderness legislation and natural resource advocacy in the American West. American Wildland's mission is to promote, protect and restore biodiversity and advocate for sustainable management of the West's wildlands, watersheds and wildlife, with special attention to the Northern Rocky Mountain region.

Smart Growth Network
The mission of the Smart Growth Network is to encourage development that better serves the economic, environmental and social needs of communities. The Network provides a forum for information sharing, education, tool development and application, and collaboration on smart growth issues.

Tri-State Transportation Campaign
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is an alliance of public interest, transit advocacy, planning and environmental organizations working to reform transportation policies in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region.

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Scenic America
Scenic America is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the scenic character of America's communities and countryside.

NatureServe
NatureServe's staff and member programs work together to develop and provide knowledge about the world's natural diversity. We are an organization that includes hundreds of skilled scientists, information specialists, and other professionals, delivering a unique blend of expertise in two fields�conservation biology and data management. NatureServe provides the context, analysis, and interpretation that transforms biological data into conservation knowledge.

American Farmland Trust
American Farmland Trust is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to protect our nation's farmland. AFT works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.

Land Trust Alliance (LTA)
The Land Trust Alliance promotes voluntary land conservation and strengthens the land trust movement by providing the leadership, information, skills and resources land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural systems.

Urban Land Institute
The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land to enhance the total environment.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education and advocacy to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.

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ACADEMIC / RESEARCH

Wildlife and Roads
A resource for mitigating the effects of roads on wildlife using wildlife crossings such as overpasses, underpasses, and crosswalks.

The Center for Transportation and the Environment
The Center for Transportation and the Environment is a US Department of Transportation university transportation center, located at North Carolina State University. Through programs of research, education, and technology transfer, CTE is the only UTC in the country that seeks to mitigate the impacts of surface transportation on the environment.

The Volpe Center
The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an internationally recognized center of transportation and logistics expertise. Through research and development, engineering, and analysis, the Volpe Center helps decision-makers define problems and pursue solutions to lead transportation into the 21st century. In essence, the Volpe Center is a catalyst for innovation-a source of critical insight necessary to realize transportation's promising future.

Mineta Transportation Institute
The Mineta Transportation Institute formally known as the International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) was established by Congress at San Jos� State University as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Unique among the nation's six University Transportation Institutes, MTI focuses on international surface transportation policy issues as related to three primary responsibilities: research, education and technology transfer. MTI receives policy oversight from an internationally respected Board of Trustees who represent all of the major transportation modes.

Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)
The Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) is a federally owned and operated research facility in McLean, Virginia. TFHRC is the home of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Office of Research, Development, and Technology.

Banff National Park (Canada) Highway Effects on Wildlife: A Research, Monitoring and Adaptive Mitigation Study
The current rate of habitat fragmentation and human development along the Trans-Canada corridor is a threat for the long-term survival of wildlife in Banff National Park (BNP). In the fall of 1996, park ecologists began a research and monitoring program that addresses the potential effects of highways on wildlife populations in BNP.

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
For an extended list of organizations see AASHTO�s compilation at http://planning.transportation.org/?siteid=30&pageid=291

American Planning Association
The American Planning Association is a non-profit public interest and research organization representing 30,000 practicing planners, officials, and citizens involved with urban and rural planning issues.

American Society of Civil Engineers
Today ASCE is a worldwide leader for excellence in civil engineering. With a mission to advance professional knowledge and improve the practice of civil engineering, ASCE is a focal point for the development and transfer of research results, and technical policy and managerial information. Through strategic emphasis in key areas, including infrastructure renewal and development, policy leadership and professional development, ASCE delivers the highest quality publications, programs and services to its worldwide membership, demonstrating a daily commitment to sustaining the profession.

American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association, founded in 1902, is the only national organization that exclusively represents the collective interests of all sectors of the U.S. transportation construction industry before the White House, Congress, federal agencies, media and the public. Over the past decade, the association has also been the industry's primary advocate in environmental issues. ARTBA's more than 5,000 members support an integrated, multi-modal transportation system for the United States that provides safe and efficient transportation for all Americans and U.S. businesses.

American Public Transportation Association
APTA serves and leads its diverse membership through advocacy, innovation, and information sharing to strengthen and expand public transportation.

American Highway Users Alliance
The American Highway Users Alliance is a nonprofit advocacy organization serving as the united voice of the transportation community promoting safe, uncongested highways and enhanced freedom of mobility. Known as The Highway Users, the group works for sound public policy in the United States.

American Trucking Associations
The American Trucking Associations is the national trade association of the trucking industry. Our mission is to serve the united interests of the 9.3 million people and 423,000-plus companies involved in trucking, and to educate public officials at all levels of government about the essential nature of our business.

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INFORMATION

Wildlife Crossings Toolkit
This site provides a searchable database of cases where wildlife crossing problems have been attempted to be solved. It also provides useful links, a glossary of terms and a selection of articles that discuss wildlife and highway issues.

ICOET: International Conference on Ecology & Transportation STPP's Guide to TEA-21
This users guide to TEA-21 gives you an in-depth look at the policies and funding, explains the major features, key opportunities for making progress and explores potential pitfalls.