Vermont Reports & Other Publications

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Vermont’s Best Management Practices for Highways and Wildlife Connectivity

Shilling, F., P. Cramer, C. Reining, L. Farrell. 2012. Vermont’s Best Management Practices for Highways and Wildlife Connectivity. Manual for Vermont Transportation Agency.

This Manual provides guidance to planning, project design and construction, and operations and maintenance on ways that wildlife interactions with the highway transportation system can be improved. The Best Management Practices (BMPs) described are derived from the scientific and technical literature and are the ones most likely to be effective in Vermont, especially in combination with planned improvements for flood resiliency. The guidance is intended to solve identified problems with wildlife movement and connectivity using proven and testable methods. Implementing these BMPs won’t solve all transportation impacts to wildlife, but it will help improve conditions for both wildlife populations and driver-safety.

Improving roadway conservation investments in Vermont: Developing a prioritization screening framework for reducing road and wildlife mortality and improving wildlife movement through bridges and culverts

  • What should we know about the services you provide? Better descriptions result in more sales. URL: https://vtrans.vermont.gov/sites/aot/files/Research/VTrans_Final_Report_2021_0001057-332.pdf

Photo credit: L. Farrell

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Photo credit: L. Farrell

Reducing wildlife mortality on roads in Vermont: determining relationships between structure attributes and wildlife movement frequency through bridges and culverts to improve related conservation investments.