Develop Roadway Crossings for Sensitive Amphibians
This task will develop, validate, and produce practitioner guidance for ways that sensitive amphibian taxa can use to cross roads. The taxa of interest to California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) include: Arroyo Toad, Yosemite Toad, California Red-legged Frog, Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog, Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs, California Tiger Salamander, and Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander. Areas of interest include road crossing materials, road crossing dimensions, ecological conditions within road crossings, means for preventing amphibian access to shoulders and pavement, and how to integrate amphibian road crossings with crossings for other kinds of wildlife.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Sponsor Organizations: Sacramento, CA United States 95819
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Project Managers:
Hunt, Harold
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Performing Organizations:
Department of the Interior
Geological Survey
Washington, DC United States -
Principal Investigators:
Clevenger, Anthony
- Start Date: 20140630
- Expected Completion Date: 20200630
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Amphibians; Ecology; Environmental impacts; Road kill; Road shoulders; Wildlife crossings
- Identifier Terms: California Department of Transportation
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01620485
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jan 4 2017 10:52AM