News and Updates
Articles and News that feature the Wildlife Connectivity Institute and its Founder Dr. Patricia Cramer
April 2024
Earth Day Success Story: Wildlife Crossings Keep Animals and People Safe
Newsweek
by Jeff Young
View and read stories Dr. Cramer tells about wildlife using wildlife crossing structures, and the hope for the future.
March 2024
As Idaho Celebrates its First Overpass, Some Worry the State is Trailing
Boise Public Radio
by Rachel Cohen
Listen to the various viewpoints on how Idaho is slow to embrace wildlife crossings, with quotes by Dr. Cramer.
March 2024
Read the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s Bugle article on Dr. Cramer, in their Friends in the Field column.
View a Video of Colorado’s US 160 Chimney Rock Wildlife Overpass Working for Elk from our research cameras
September 2023
Crossings How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Listen to an interview the NPR Program Fresh Air with Terry Gross conducted with Ben Goldfarb.
The International Conference on Ecology and Transportation
Dr. Cramer presented a talk on How Wildlife Are Incorporated into Transportation Planning
June 2023
In the Park Record, Park City, Utah
Save People Save Wildlife advocates for crossing structures amid high collision rate
By Toria Barnhart, July 2023
May 2023
Corridors, Connectivity, and Crossings Conference
Integrating Wildlife Mitigation into Transportation Procedures
By Dr. Patricia Cramer
An invited talk to this Tucson, Arizona Conference sponsored by Pew Charitable Trust
February 2023
In New Scientist
By Loise Parshley
What a Meandering Moose Says About US Wildlife Protection Efforts
This article focuses on wildlife crossing structures across western U.S. and how they are facilitating new wildlife movement. Dr. Cramer is featured.
January/February 2023
Integrating Wildlife Connectivity and Safety Concerns into Transportation Planning and Processes
In Public Roads by the Federal Highway Administration
By Daniel Buford, Patricia Cramer, and Nova Simpson
The Nevada Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration led a team of a dozen transportation agencies in a multi-study project to find ways to integrate wildlife concerns into transportation. This article highlights lessons learned and presents case studies. Dr. Cramer led the featured study.
January 2023
Montana Wildlife Crossings
Montana PBS TV
This news story focuses on Montana’s wildlife crossing structures and how there is a need for more to be built and efforts toward that need. Our pictures are featured in this story.
September 2022
Wildlife Crossings Seek to Reconnect the American West
In the Stanford University Press, & the West Publication
By Felicity Barringer
This article traces the development of wildlife crossing structures across western U.S. and has an interactive Google Earth map of known wildlife crossing structures as of 2017. Dr. Cramer helped with the writing of the article.
September 2022
A Manual to Include Wildlife Considerations in the Transportation Planning Process
The Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Environmental Analysis and Ecology (AEP70) Summer 2022 Newsletter
An article written by Dr. Cramer for the Transportation Research Board audience on how her team researched and wrote a national manual on including wildlife in the transportation planning process.
Helping Wildlife Move: One Researcher’s Journey Studying and Promoting Wildlife Crossings in the U.S.
The Mountain Lion Foundation
An interview with Dr. Cramer on her life journey that led to helping protect wildlife and restore connectivity with wildlife crossing structures.
February 2022
A Road Runs Through It
Montana Free Press
by Amanda Eggert
This article looks at wildlife crossing building in Montana and compares efforts with Wyoming.
January 2022
Animals need infrastructure, too
Vox
by Ben Goldfarb
This article looks at the funding for the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, and the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program.
November 2021
How Do Animals Safely Cross a Highways? Take a Look
New York Times
by Catrin Einhorn
This interactive article on wildlife crossing structures is one of the best ever written and arranged, with videos and pictures throughout.
May 2021
Interview with Dr. Cramer on Wildlife Crossing Structures
KGVM Radio - Bozeman - Wilderness and Wildlife Program
Interview by Jay Shell
The interview serves as a good primer to why wildlife crossings and the state of the science and practice.
December 2019