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Highways Through Habitats: The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project

Last Modified Date: 9/30/2009

A featured article in the March-April 2007 issue of TR News explores Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, which has been a testing site for innovative passageways to mitigate the effects of roads on wildlife.  The Trans-Canada Highway bisects the park, but a range of engineering mitigation measures—including a variety of wildlife underpasses and overpasses—has helped maintain large mammal populations for the past 25 years and has allowed the gathering of valuable data about wildlife crossing structures.



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