Wildlife Use of Drainage Culverts as Road Crossings

Some video examples of research being done in Arizona in 2009 on the impacts of roads on wildlife and the means to reconnect habitats by quantifying the use of culverts by wildlife. Perhaps this method of conservation may be attempted by Vermont on Interstate 89.

Freedom to Roam

Wildlife need space to migrate with the seasons, following sources of food, and return to places to birth and raise their young.  Even species that don't migrate still need space to roam to find food, and mates.  But as our population grows we fragment and isolate wildlife habitat.  When habitat becomes too small to support the the long term survival of the population we risk loosing our biodiversity.  A study done by Tom Lovejoy in the Amazon found that to keep all the biodiversity the area of land had to be 1,000 square kilometers.  When you do not have an area of land this size the next best thing is to connect sections of habitat with wildlife corridors.  This is the main idea for our project, to connect the habitat on either side of I-89 so wildlife can still have the freedom to roam