ARC Solutions and the National Wildlife Federation are partnering on an interactive Facebook Live series featuring conversations with leading local and global experts dedicated to the study, design and construction of wildlife crossings. As part of its successful P-22 Presents series, the National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign will launch “Wildlife Crossing Week” – a set of live and interactive online presentations featuring over 20 leading experts in road ecology, wildlife biology, engineering, design, science and policy.

Conversations will be live on P-22’s Facebook Page. Highlights include an overpass in Wyoming to preserve a 6,000-year-old pronghorn migration route; an experimental research highway in northern California; a network of structures in Banff and Yoho National Parks in Canada that have been used over 200,000 times by grizzly bears, cougars, wolves, and moose; a coalition of partners working on the I-40/Pigeon Gorge project near the Great Smoky Mountains in NC and TN; and an underpass in Vermont designed for frogs and salamanders.

(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.

A growing threat to people and to animals, collisions between wildlife and vehicles have been increased by 50 percent in the last 15 years. These accidents now cost Americans $8 billion every year.

ARC engages new thinking to design crossing structures that reconnect landscapes, safeguarding our wildlife populations, their habitats and our ecosystems. The right solution will reduce the number of collisions to save human and animal lives, at a lower cost, improving highway safety for all.

Integrating science and design, ARC is changing the way people and animals see and understand our landscapes. We use interdisciplinary collaboration and international cooperation to address a continental problem at local sites and scales.

Dynamic conditions demand flexible solutions and responsive materials. ARC explores new, sustainable infrastructure material strategies to respond to people, animals, and their shared environments.

ARC works to implement creative solutions for wildlife crossing infrastructure to benefit humans and animals. Our success depends on partners and projects across North America.

Join us, and become part of the solution.