Nevada Reports & Other Publications
See below for links to reports and pubs
The Nevada Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration Pooled Fund Study: The Strategic Integration of Wildlife Mitigation Into Transportation Procedures: A Manual for Agencies and Partners
Cramer, P., J. Kintsch, J. Gagnon, N. Dodd, T. Brennan, L. Loftus-Otway, K. Andrews, P. Basting, L. Frazier, and L. Sielecki. 2022. The strategic integration of wildlife mitigation into transportation procedures; a manual for agencies and partners. A report to The Wildlife Vehicle Collision (WVC) Reduction and Habitat Connectivity Transportation Pooled Fund Project TPF 5(358). 334 pages
This manual instructs agency professionals and their partners on how the transportation planning process works across U.S. states and some Canadian provinces, and how wildlife concerns, specifically wildlife-vehicle conflicts, can be brought into the steps within the process. The goal of this manual is to inspire readers to help institutionalize wildlife concerns into transportation agency mission statements, long range plans, programming of projects, and all the steps to design, construct, and maintain transportation projects. A major step toward this goal is to win the hearts and minds of transportation professionals to think about wildlife in their everyday actions, and how they can help wildlife safely move across transportation infrastructure. Click on the cover image for an automatic download of the report.
The Nevada Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration Pooled Fund Study: The Strategic Integration of Wildlife Mitigation Into Transportation Procedures: Practices, Partnerships, and Next Steps
Cramer, P., J. Kintsch, L. Loftus-Otway, N. Dodd, K. Andrews, T. Brennan, P. Basting, J. Gagnon, L. Frazier, and L. Sielecki. 2022. Strategic integration of wildlife mitigation into transportation procedures: Practices, partnerships, and next steps. Report of the Nevada Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration Pooled Fund Study: The Wildlife Vehicle Collision (WVC) Reduction and Habitat Connectivity Transportation Pooled Fund Project TPF 5(358). 241 pages. URL: https://pooledfund.org/Details/Study/610
This research explored approaches to assessing wildlife needs to be accommodated in transportation processes through a two-nation survey of transportation professionals, literature review, case studies of partnerships and other efforts to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) and accommodate wildlife movement, and the input of dozens of transportation and ecology professionals on the research team and the supporting agency partners in this Pooled Fund Study. The consistent response themes to the survey included: 1) The important information sources for integrating wildlife needs were WVC crash data and hotspots analyses of these data; 2) The most important parts of the planning process were collaboration with wildlife agencies and inclusion of wildlife mitigation plans into long range plans; and 3) The top four most common needs were – dedicated funding, legislative support to consider wildlife movement needs, collaboration with wildlife agencies, and instilling environmental stewardship and awareness within agencies. Click on the cover image for an automatic download of the report.
Cramer, P. 2022. TPF-5(358) The strategic integration of wildlife mitigation into transportation procedures: Final Report to Nevada DOT. 23 pages.
This research resulted in a manual: “The Strategic Integration of Wildlife Mitigation into Transportation Procedures: A Manual for Agencies and Their Partners,” a report “The Strategic Integration of Wildlife Mitigation into Transportation Procedures: Practices, Partnerships, and Next Steps,” and this final report on practices transportation agencies and their partners can strategically institute to include wildlife concerns in the transportation process. The reports and manual are the results of research that explored approaches to assessing wildlife movement needs that should be accommodated in transportation processes through a two-nation survey of transportation professionals, literature review, case studies of partnerships and other efforts to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) and accommodation of wildlife movement, and the input of dozens of transportation and ecology professionals on the research team and the supporting agency partners in this Pooled Fund Study. Click on the cover image for an automatic download of the report.
The Nevada Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration Pooled Fund Study: The Strategic Integration of Wildlife Mitigation Into Transportation Procedures: Final Report
Prioritization of Wildlife-Vehicle Conflict in Nevada
Cramer, P. and C. McGinty. 2018. Prioritization of Wildlife-Vehicle Conflict in Nevada. Final Report to Nevada Department of Transportation. 264 pages. URL: https://www.nevadadot.com/home/showdocument?id=16038.
This study identified areas of animal-vehicle conflict of highest priority where NDOT can create mitigation alternatives to reduce these collisions and make roads safer for travelers. The researchers identified the top hotspot locations for potential wildlife mitigation using the Getis-Ord Gi* Optimized Hot Spot Analysis tool in ArcGIS. Different priority areas were mapped based on crash data with all animal types, only wildlife, horse crashes, and cattle crashes. Another top 25 priority map was created using GIS modeling of safety and ecological data to identify areas of potential animal-vehicle conflict. These hotspot areas were where wildlife and livestock presence near roads is predicted based on many factors. These maps and other research results were presented to Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) with recommendations on how to integrate results into transportation planning and operations. Tables for priority hotspots were generated for the entire state and each NDOT district. Click on the cover image for an automatic download of the report.