Building Connections Between Wildlife Populations and People:  The Application of Wildlife Linkage Across the Northern Rockies Landscape

A workshop on application and future direction

                                                        April 13-14, 2006                                                                                                                                  Missoula, Montana

Speakers and Presentations

                    Photo courtesy of Bryce Christiaens

Basting, Pat:  How MDT is promoting human safety and wildlife highway crossings

Becker, Dale:  The application of wildlife linkage on Hwy. 93  

Berkey, Jim:  The involvement of land conservation organizations

Burnim, Joshua:  Wildlife linkage across private and public lands and highways on Bozeman Pass

Clough, Rich:  Private lands taskforce update and the application of linkage on private lands

Corday, Jackie & Linda Dworak:  Bitterroot Wildlife and Wetlands Focus Group

Cramer, Tim:  Idaho ITD linkage mapping and transportation planning

Danesh, Eleanor & Jeannie Siegler:  Ninemile Wildlife Movement Areas Work Group

Dinning, Dan:  The view of county governments - Boundary County, Idaho

Dohmen, Alan:  Wildlife linkage in forest plan revisions

Duke, Danah:  Wildlife mortality analysis of Highway 3 in Alberta

Frazier, Loran:  Citizen effectiveness working with MDT and other agencies 

Graves, Tabitha:  Identifying corridors and linkage zones based on real-world data

Haber, Jon:  Coordinating federal land planning and local planning to conserve habitat connectivity

Henderson, Bob:  The importance of maintaining movement opportunities for big game

Hilty, Jodi:  Temporal and spatial scales of wildlife linkage   

Horwich, John:  Integrating county planning and transportation planning

Just, Kim:  Considerations of wildlife crossings from a transportation perspective

Lee, Tracy:  Crow's Nest Pass local citizen involvement - "Road Watch"

Loge, Denley:  The view of private landowners

O'Herren, Pat:  The view of county governments - Missoula County, Montana 

Parker, Melanie:  Private lands - what works and what doesn't

Proctor, Michael:

• The ecological importance of landscape connectivity
• A DNA-based approach to identify grizzly bear linkage

Ruediger, Bill:  The importance of linkage to the public and agencies

Servheen, Chris:

• Introduction to the workshop - The concept of linkage
• Highways taskforce update
• Measuring success in wildlife linkage:  biological, economic, public safety, etc. 

Sheldon, Daly:  Pronghorn movement and distribution patterns of pronghorn in relation to roads and fences in Wyoming

Summerfield, Bob:  A protocol for addressing linkage on public lands

Wall, Ken:  Interactive GIS tools to identify wildlife and highway linkage areas

Waller, John:  Highway 2 and grizzly bears

Waller, John and Kerry Gunther:  The NPS approach to wildlife linkage

Wolfe, Gary:  Building better partnerships with private landowners and counties

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