Develop Roadway Crossings for Reptiles

This task is to develop, validate, and produce practitioner guidance for ways that sensitive reptile taxa can use to cross roads. The taxa of interest to California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) include: Desert Tortoise, Western Pond Turtle, Giant Garter Snake, San Francisco Garter Snake, Alameda Whipsnake, Coast Horned Lizard and Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard. Areas of interest include road crossing materials, road crossing dimensions, ecological conditions within road crossings, means for preventing reptile access to shoulders and pavement, and how to integrate reptile road crossings with crossings for other kinds of wildlife.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  Sacramento, CA  United States  95819
• Project Managers:

  Hunt, Harold

• Performing Organizations:

  Department of the Interior

  Geological Survey
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Start Date: 20140701
• Expected Completion Date: 20200630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ecology; Guidelines; Road kill; Road shoulders; Wildlife; Wildlife crossings
• Identifier Terms: California Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01620484
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 4 2017 10:52AM