Keeping It Simple - Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads Critter Crossings Linking Habitats and Reducing Roadkill
Pups, ODOT and Journey District 4: Donates fresh deer and elk roadkill to: Keeping It Simple - ODOT's WILDLIFE PROJECTS Region 1: Peregrine falcon nest boxes Photos by Bob Sallinger
Region 1, 4 & 5 - Bat boxes on new bridges Region 2 - Bat box near a new bridge
District 2A - Ivy removal Region 4 - Wildlife passage in a new culvert
ODOT Region 1 Wildlife Hot Spot Study Intermediate scale, rapid-assessment approach, expert team meetings 8 subregion expert teams (based on maintenance districts) 22% all highways identified as wildlife hotspots 86 hotspots; 6 high-priority Prioritization mainly based on collision frequency (qualitative) Mostly deer-vehicle collisions, but also other types of conflict areas Roadkill data can refine findings
Example Results of Wildlife Hot Spot Study