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ARC: Animal Road Crossings

New Wildlife Crossing Fund Will Raise $500 Million

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.

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Guide to Wildlife Infrastructure Funding Opportunities

ARC Solutions, National Parks Conservation Association, and Wildlands Network are excited to share this snapshot guide to Wildlife Infrastructure Funding Opportunities within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Interested in learning more about national grants and other Federal, Tribal, and State funding programs that can be used to pay for wildlife mitigation measures, including animal road crossing structures?  Then click here to read more about this living document.

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Wild Ways: Harvard GSD

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.

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Featured Partner: Highways and Habitats

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.

Photo: Johnny C Y Lam

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Nina-Marie Lister Named 2021 Margolese Prize Winner

ARC Partner and Advisor to the 2010 ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition, Professor Nina-Marie Lister, has been named the 2021 Margolese Prize Winner for her leadership in urban ecology and design. The prize celebrates a Canadian citizen who has made a significant contribution to the built environment and the people within it.

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Wildlife Crossing Success Stories

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. 

 

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Highway Crossing Structures for Wildlife: Opportunities for Improving Driver and Animal Safety

Developed collaboratively by a multidisciplinary team of experts, this report summarizes for policymakers the challenges and anticipated benefits of creating a systematic, national network of wildlife crossings.

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Innovative Strategies to Reduce the Cost of Effective Wildlife Overpasses

Wildlife overpasses, or structures that bridge a road or highway to allow wildlife to cross over safely, pay for themselves fairly quickly but are often regarded as expensive to build. This report contains information useful to transportation engineers, compiling design and construction techniques, strategies, and considerations aimed at reducing costs while maintaining or improving the efficacy of wildlife overpasses.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Wildlife Crossings

This publication features answers to the most common inquiries and misconceptions regarding wildlife-vehicle collisions and the proven success of wildlife crossing infrastructure in solving this ubiquitous problem. Often, the available scientific literature, peer-reviewed publications, and technical resources are long, complex and not easily digestible. Developed in collaboration with leaders in the scientific research and implementation of wildlife crossings, the most current and accurate information has been distilled in a question and answer format.

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National Wildlife Federation Unveils New Look at Landmark California Wildlife Crossing

ARC is absolutely thrilled to be part of the outstanding collaboration working to ensure that the crossing at Liberty Canyon represents a worldwide model of excellence in design for the safe passage of people and wildlife, making it both a physical and symbolic bridge to the future for southern California’s wildlife including its treasured mountain lions.

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(Re)Connecting Wild: Restoring Safe Passages

(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.

HNTB+MVVA

Concept design for the winning entry in the 2010 ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition by HNTB with Michael Van Valkenburgh & Associates.

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What is ARC?

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.

What Is ARC
How can design
save wildlife and
wild places?
New Thinking
Why
are animals
dying on
our roads?
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What can transform a road into a place?
New Materials
Can exploring
new materials
change how we
engineer our
highways?
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What’s been done
about roadkill,
and why isn’t it
enough?
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we are working
to create
safe passages.
"Early spring 2013, a doe was hit and killed by a car, left on the side of the road. This doe had twin yearlings that stayed with the dead doe for 3-4 days. They would not leave her side and were potential victims. On the forth day the body was removed and the yearlings were left with the challenge to survive without the guidance of their mother. The saddest thing I ever witnessed from roadkill."
Larry Nytz
Bismarck, North Dakota
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New York Times: How Do Animals Safely Cross a Highway? Take a Look.
June 1, 2021
New York Times: How Do Animals Safely Cross a Highway? Take a Look.
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