FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES RELATED TO WILDLIFE MORTALITY

The Florida Department of Transportation's environmental policy is to cooperate with State efforts to avoid fragmentation of habitat and wildlife corridors. The policy requires consideration of existing facilities as well as planned projects. There is extensive coordination with both federal and state programs toward this end. Also, early in the project development process, communication with outside agencies and advocacy groups is necessary to coordinate the habitat and wildlife aspects. Innovative approaches and partnerships have resulted. Some of these are discussed in this paper.

Supplemental Notes:
- Also published by Florida DOT as a paper in FL-ER-58-96, "Trends in Addressing Transportation Related Wildlife Mortality: Proceedings of the Transportation Related Wildlife Mortality Seminar (June 1996).
Corporate Authors:
Florida Department of Transportation

Haydon Burns Building, 605 Suwanee Street
Tallahassee, FL United States 32301

Federal Highway Administration

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590
Authors:
- Evink, G L
Conference:
- Transportation and Wildlife: Reducing Wildlife Mortality and Improving Wildlife Passageways Across Transportation Corridors
- Location: Orlando, Florida
- Date: 1996-4-30 to 1996-5-2
Publication Date: 1996-8

Language

English

Media Info

Features: References;
Pagination: p. 278-286

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Coordination; Environmental policy; Federal government; Habitat (Ecology); Innovation; Partnerships; Private enterprise; State departments of transportation; State government; Traffic mitigation; Wildlife
Uncontrolled Terms: Fragmentation; Mitigation
Geographic Terms: Florida
Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00745672
Record Type: Publication
Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-PD-96-041
Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
Created Date: Feb 3 1998 12:00AM