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      <title>Ocelot Management and Conservation Along Transportation Corridors in Southern Texas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is an endangered cat with less than 120 individuals remaining in the  United States.  Ocelot roadkills are an important problem potentially threatening ocelot persistence in southern  Texas.  Landscape planning can provide options for the resolution of traffic-ocelot conflicts.  The authors suggest several  conservation strategies and tactics involving important road-habitat interfaces, road underpasses, and fences.   Support of alternative recovery strategies (e.g., habitat restoration) may help offset ocelot roadkills, particularly along  road segments where practical management is not effective.]]></description>
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      <title>IMPACTS OF AN EXPANDED HIGHWAY ON OCELOTS AND BOBCATS IN SOUTHERN TEXAS AND THEIR PREFERENCES FOR HIGHWAY CROSSINGS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vehicle collisions are a significant cause of mortality for the endangered ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in southern Texas.  To minimize such impacts, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has designed and modified culverts to facilitate ocelot road crossings near occupied or potentially occupied ocelot habitat.  Culverts were recently modified in connection with a project expanding a section of U.S. Highway 281 in Live Oak County, Texas where potential ocelot habitat occurs.  The objectives of this research were to assess the likelihood that an ocelot population exists in the area, determine the effects of the highway expansion on resident ocelots, and to assess the effectiveness of the highway crossing structures for free-ranging cats.  To date, the authors have not documented ocelots in the study area; however, their trapping effort will continue for another 6 months.  The authors have captured and radiocollared 7 bobcats (Lynx rufus) that will be used as surrogates for the similarly sized ocelot.  They have documented radiocollared bobcats crossing the expanded section of the highway and that used the highway culverts for both daybeds and crossing structures.  A roadkill survey has shown a large number of vehicle-related mortalities along the expanded section of highway, including one radiocollared bobcat.  This project, which will be completed in 1999, will provide information necessary for TxDOT to evaluate the effects of roads on ocelots and bobcats and to determine if crossing structures are effective and which structural design is used most readily by a variety of wildlife species.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF INTERNATIONAL BRIDGES ON OCELOTS AND JAGUARUNDIS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The endangered ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi) occupy the Lower Rio Grande Valley of extreme southern Texas.  The passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement has resulted in the proposal for construction of several international bridges linking Texas and Mexico. However, these bridges may be a significant barrier to wildlife movements across the federally designated Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor.  The authors' understanding of the landscape ecology of ocelots is discussed to better describe the possible significance of the coastal corridor within the Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor.  They identify potential direct and indirect impacts of the bridge-roadway systems upon felid populations, habitats, and landscapes.  A recently completed study of bobcat (Lynx rufus) spatial patterns near international bridges suggests possible confinements of individual felids. Conservation strategies that can be incorporated into bridge projects include "cat underpasses", development of corridor networks, restoration of key habitat tracts, and application of screens for audio and visual disturbances.  Finally, the Port of Brownsville International Bridge is used as a model for resolving a potentially difficult conflict between endangered cats and construction of an international bridge.]]></description>
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