Beyond the well-established benefits of wildlife road crossings and associated infrastructure—improving driver safety, reducing animal mortality, reconnecting habitats—there is another important but often under-appreciated benefit: supporting wildlife and ecosystems in adapting to climate change.

This analysis compares select legal decisions in the United States and Canada regarding public authority liability for failures to remediate known WVC hot spots, with the goal of assessing the potential role of liability in creating incentives for government decision makers to systematically address motorist crashes involving animals.

We applaud Congress and the Biden Administration for delivering on their bipartisan promise to make our nation’s highways safer for people and wildlife through an inaugural investment of nearly $110 million in funding for the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program.

To learn more about funded projects, read our press release here.

On September 15th, ARC will depart on a cross-country wildlife crossing road trip. The project is a collaboration between the National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars Campaign, ARC Solutions, Big Cat Voices, and the Wildlife Crossing Fund. Featuring current and future wildlife crossings sites from California to Arizona to New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida – every stop will generate awareness for the perilous pathways of wildlife, showcase solutions that can save the lives of animals and raise awareness for the need for wildlife crossings.

ARC Solutions, National Parks Conservation Association, and Wildlands Network are excited to share this newly released Wildlife Infrastructure Funding Guide. Interested in learning more about Federal funding opportunities under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that can be used to pay for wildlife mitigation measures, including animal road crossings?  Then check out our dedicated Wildlife Crossings Pilot and Wildlife Infrastructure Funding page to explore this living guide and other resources.

The National Wildlife Federation's #SaveLACougars campaign and an expert set of committed partners are celebrating the launch of The Wildlife Crossing Fund – a campaign that aims to accelerate the building of wildlife crossings across California, the United States, and the world and reconnect lands for our collective future. The fund has set a fundraising goal of a half a billion dollars to leverage with public dollars and advance the building of these critical infrastructure projects – launching an extraordinary public private partnership.

Jointly sponsored by Arc Solutions and the National Wildlife Federation, the Wild Ways studio hosted at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Spring 2022. Taught by Professor Chris Reed, the studio explores themes of connectivity, resilience, and landscape infrastructure through the particular lens of metropolitan scale wildlife corridors and crossings in and around Los Angeles.

Highways & Habitats is an online introduction to Road Ecology – the interaction of transportation systems and infrastructure with wildlife and habitats.  Presented by the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) and the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department (VF&WD), Highways & Habitats Tier 1, gives a broad overview of the Road Ecology challenges and opportunities for transportation and wildlife professionals.

Discover wildlife crossing success stories across North America featuring a diversity of species, from toads to pronghorn to mountain lions; a range of landscapes, from urban to rural and in between, and learn about the partnerships that came together to make our roads safer for people and wildlife. 

(Re)Connecting Wild tells the remarkable story of the decade-long effort by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) and its partners to improve human safety by re-connecting a historic mule deer migration that crosses over both US-93 and I-80 in rural Elko County, Nevada. Witness the wildlife crossing structures along I-80 from construction to the restoration of safe passage for migratory mule deer to more than 1.5 million acres of summer and winter habitat.

ARC is an interdisciplinary partnership working to facilitate new thinking, new methods, new materials and new solutions for wildlife crossing structures. Our goal is to ensure safe passage for both humans and animals on and across our roads. Situated at the intersection of science and design, we are a forum for creative collaborations and surprising synergies.