Wildlife Mitigation Research and Design
ECO-resolutions brings conservation science and design expertise paired with a practical approach based on the latest research and practice. This work demands close collaboration with engineers and other disciplines to design ecologically effective and cost-conscious mitigation that address the needs of the target species. Our design recommendations are supported by scientifically robust monitoring research studies and an expansive knowledge of mitigation designs and research from other locations. At each step in the process ECO-resolutions works to ensure that every mitigation project is informed by its predecessors and, in turn is leveraged for the benefit of future mitigation designs.
Connectivity Planning
Roads, other infrastructure, and land uses contribute to the fragmentation of our landscapes and create barriers to wildlife movements. Integrative, cross-jurisdictional planning processes are needed to restore and protect landscape connections that are essential for the sustained health of our wildlife, ecosystems, and communities. ECO-resolutions leads diverse stakeholder groups to envision a connected landscape for the benefit of wildlife and people. We synthesize ecological, land use, wildlife conflict, and other data to evaluate project-specific challenges and opportunities and to help agencies and communities plan for a connected landscape – at the road interface and beyond.
Partnership and Collaboration
ECO-resolutions convenes partners and stakeholders across a diverse human and ecological landscape to create and implement a common vision for a connected landscape. ECO-resolutions has worked with interdisciplinary and interagency teams across Colorado and other western states to develop practical strategies for protecting and restoring wildlife movements and wildlife corridors and mitigating wildlife-highway conflict.
Our collaborative processes engage
- Departments of transportation
- Wildlife agencies
- Federal, state, and local land management agencies
- Local governments
- Private landowners
- Non-governmental organizations
- Industry
- Communities and citizens interest groups
Presentations and Workshops
ECO-resolutions helps organize and instruct short courses and workshops in transportation ecology. Previous trainings include:
- Transportation Ecology Pre-Conference Workshop at the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (2017; 2019)
- Innovative Approaches to Wildlife and Highway Interactions, a week-long course sponsored by the USDA Forest Service and held at the University of California Biological Research Station in Truckee, California (2013; 2016)
ECO-resolutions staff is a regular speaker and participant at national and international conferences and has been an invited speaker for state-level forums such as the Colorado Wildlife and Transportation Summit and the Wyoming Wildlife and Roadways Summit.
Clients
ECO-resolutions works with state and federal departments of transportation, wildlife agencies, land management agencies, tribes, non-governmental organizations, and private entities. Current and previous clients include:
- Colorado Department of Transportation
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
- Eagle County Planning Department, Colorado
- Maine Audubon
- National Forest Foundation
- Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
- Rocky Mountain Wild
- South Dakota Department of Transportation
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- USDA Forest Service
- Washington Department of Transportation
- Wyoming Department of Transportation