Conference Registration and Check-In

Speaker Ready Room Opens

Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks
(Moderator: Leroy Irwin, Conference Chair)

• Welcome from CTE
  (James Martin, Associate Director, CTE, NC State University)
• Welcome from the University of California at Davis, Road Ecology Center
  (Daniel Sperling, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, and Co-Author, Road Ecology: Science and Solutions)
• Welcome from Caltrans-District 11, San Diego
  (Charles "Muggs" Stoll, District Division Chief - Environmental, Caltrans)
• Caltrans: On the Road to Environmental Stewardship!
  (Jay Norvell, Environmental Division Chief, Caltrans)
  

Session 1: Update on Federal and International Activities
(Moderator: Paul Garrett , FHWA Headquarters, USA)

• Update on the Activities of the Infra Eco Network of Europe
  (Hans Bekker, Ministry of Transport and Water Management, The Netherlands)
• Results of the August 2005 INTECOL/ESA Conference in Montreal
  (Jochen Jaeger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
• SAFTEA-LU Overview
  (Mary Gray, FHWA Headquarters, USA)
• Update on the Reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
  (Patricia White, Defenders of Wildlife, USA)

• Environmental Retrofit for Highways: Making Habitat a Priority
  (Paul Wagner, Washington State DOT, USA)
• Science-Based Approach to Adaptive Management of the Trans-Canada Highway Corridor in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  (Tony Clevenger, Western Transportation Institute, USA)
• Maine’s Beginning with Habitat Program and Transportation Partnership
  (Barbara Charry, Maine Audubon, USA)
• Wildlife Tunnels and Fauna Bridges in Poland:
  Past, Present, and Future
  (Jadwiga Brodziewska, Suwalki, Poland)
• Species Conservation Banking: A New Business-Friendly Option for Protecting Endangered Species
  (Jessica Fox, EPRI Solutions, Inc., USA)

Session 3A: Integrating Transportation and Resource Conservation Planning – Conservation Banking
(Moderator: Sandy Jacobson, USDA Forest Service, USA)

• On the Road to Conservation Planning: State Conservation Strategies and Applications for Transportation Planning
  (Patricia White, Defenders of Wildlife, USA)
• Integrating Transportation with Regional Conservation Planning
  (John DiGregoria, US Fish and Wildlife Service, USA)
• Oregon DOT’s Habitat Value Approach to Compensatory Mitigation Debit/Credit Calculations
  (William Warncke, Oregon DOT, USA)
• SANDAG’s TransNet Environmental Mitigation Program
  (Janet Fairbanks, San Diego Association of Governments, USA)

Session 3B: Transportation Corridor Vegetation Management
(Moderator: Bonnie Harper-Lore, FHWA Headquarters, USA)

• Mitigation for Dormice and their Ancient Woodland Habitat Alongside a Motorway Corridor
  (Warren Cresswell, Cresswell Associates, United Kingdom)
• Response of Acacia Species to Soil Disturbance by Roadworks
  in Southern New South Wales
  (Peter Spooner, Charles Sturt University, Australia)
• High Altitude Revegetation Experiments on the Beartooth Plateau
  (Liz Payson, ERO Resources Corporation, USA)

International Ballroom
(Riviera thru St. Tropez)

International Ballroom
(San Marino)

• Culvert Test Bed: Fish Passage Research Facility
  (Walt Pearson, Battelle PNNL, USA)
• Restoration of Aquatic Habitat and Fish Passage Degraded by Widening of Indian Highway 58 in Garhwal Himalaya
  (Ramesh Sharma, Garhwal University, India)
• Engineered Logjams, An Alternative Bank Protection Method for US 101 Along the Hoh River, Washington
  (Carl Ward, Washington State DOT, USA)
• Role of Geomorphic River Reach Assessments in Developing Environmentally Beneficial Highway Protection Measures
  (Jennifer Black Goldsmith, Herrera Environmental Consultants, USA)

Session 4B: Context Sensitive Solutions – Integrating Community Values with Conservation Objectives
(Moderator: Amanda Hardy, Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University, USA)

• Integrating Community Values and Fostering Interagency Collaboration Through Outreach with Interactive GIS Models
  (Michael McCoy, University of California at Davis, USA)
• Quick Fixes: Working Together to Address Herpetile Road Mortality in New York State
  (Debra Nelson, New York State DOT, USA)
• Bayview Avenue Extension, Richmond Hill, Ontario. Habitat Creation and Wildlife Crossings in a Contentious Environmental Setting - A Case Study
  (Geoffrey Gartshore, Ecoplans Limited, Canada)

International Ballroom
(Riviera thru St. Tropez)

International Ballroom
(San Marino)

Exhibits Open

International Welcome Reception
(Sponsored by HDR Engineering, Inc., Sensor Technologies and Systems, Inc., and URS Corporation)

Terrazza Ballroom

South Poolside

Continental Breakfast

Business Meeting of the TRB Task Force on Ecology and Transportation

Foyer

Bayside Terrace Grill

Session 5A: Acoustics Ecology – Aquatics Issues
(Moderator: Mary Gray, FHWA Headquarters, USA)

• How Did We Get Into This Mess?
  (Deborah McKee, Caltrans, USA)
• What Do We Know About Pile Driving and Fish?
  (Arthur Popper, Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland, USA)
• Barotrauma Injury of Physostomous and Physoclistous Fish by Non-Explosive Sound and Pressure Cycling
  (Thomas Carlson, Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Assessing the Impact of Pile Driving on Fish (A.D. Hawkins, Loughine Ltd., United Kingdom)

Session 5B: Wildlife Impacts and Conservation Solutions - Herpetofauna
(Moderator: James Martin, CTE, North Carolina State University, USA)

• Amphibian Road Kill: A Global Perspective
  (Miklós Puky, Hungarian Danube Research Station of the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungary)
• Effects of Road Mortality on a Population of Painted Turtles in Montana and the Potential to Minimize These Effects with Barrier Fencing
  (Kathy Griffin, University of Montana, USA)
• Factors Influencing the Road Mortality of Snakes on the Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho
  (Denim Jochimsen, Idaho State University, USA)
• How Do Highways Influence Snake Movement? Behavioral
  Responses to Roads and Vehicles
  (Kimberly Andrews, University of Georgia, USA)

International Ballroom
(Riviera thru Monte Carlo)

International Ballroom
(St. Tropez)

Break

Poster Session Set-Up

Session 6A: Acoustics Ecology – Wildlife Impacts of Roadway Noise
(Sponsored by UC-Davis Road Ecology Center)
(Moderator: Alison Berry, UC-Davis Road Ecology Center, USA)

• Evaluating and Minimizing the Effects of Pile Driving on the Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus),
  A Threatened Seabird
  (Emily Teachout, US Fish and Wildlife Service, USA)
• Impacts of Road Noise on Birds
  (Robert Dooling, University of Maryland, USA)
• Synthesis of Noise Effects on Wildlife
  (Paul Kaseloo, Virginia State University, USA)
• Bioacoustic Profiles: Evaluating Potential Masking of Wildlife Vocal Communication by Highway Noise
  (Edward West, Jones and Stokes, USA)

Session 6B: Wildlife Impacts and Conservation Solutions – Large Mammals
(Moderator: Susan Hagood, Humane Society of the United States, USA)

• Modeling Highway Impacts Related to Grizzly Bear Core Habitat and Connectivity Habitat in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Using a Two-Scale Approach
  (Lance Craighead, Craighead Environmental Research Institute, USA)
• Evaluation of Principal Roadkill Areas for Florida Black Bear
  (Stephanie Simek, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, USA)
• Effects of Highways on Elk Habitat in the Western United States and Proposed Mitigation Approaches
  (Bill Ruediger, Western Consulting Resources, USA)
• Monitoring Effects of Highway Traffic on Wild Reindeer by Satellite
  (Bjørn Iuell, Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Norway)

International Ballroom
(Riviera thru Monte Carlo)

International Ballroom
(St. Tropez)

Session 7A: Poster Session

Session 7B: Streamlining in Washington State
(Moderator: Debra Nelson, New York State DOT, USA)

• Transportation Permit Efficiency and Accountability Committee
  (Barbara Aberle, Washington State DOT, USA)
• Use of a Multi-Agency Permitting Team
  (Christina Martinez, Washington State DOT, USA)
• Web-Based Permitting in Washington
  (Scott Boettcher, Washington State Department of Ecology, USA)
• WSDOT Programmatic Permit Program
  (Marion Carey, Washington State DOT, USA)
  

Mediterranean Ballroom
(Las Palmas thru Portofino)

International Ballroom
(Riviera thru Monte Carlo)

Session 8A: Poster Session (cont'd)

Session 8B: Context Sensitive Solutions – Integrating Community Values with Conservation Objectives
(Moderator: Bill Ruediger (Retired), USDA Forest Service, USA)

• Improving Mobility for Wildlife and People: Transportation Planning for Habitat Connectivity in Washington State
  (Paul Wagner, Washington State DOT, USA)
• Connecting Values, Process and Project Design: Twinning the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park of Canada
  (Terry McGuire, Parks Canada, Canada)
• Environmental Imperatives and the Engineering Interface:
  How to Make Hard Decisions
  (Martin Jalkotzy, Golder Associates, Ltd., Canada)
• Case Study in Context Sensitive Design in Transportation Planning
  (Kenneth Deats, McCormick Taylor, Inc., USA)

Mediterranean Ballroom
(Las Palmas thru Portofino)

International Ballroom
(Riviera thru Monte Carlo)

Integrating California's Transportation Planning and Wildlife Conservation Strategy: Workshop and Dinner Meeting
(By Invitation Only)
(Sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife)

Defenders of Wildlife is hosting a by-invitation-only dinner workshop to discuss the integration of California's wildlife conservation strategy and transportation planning process. For more information, contact Trisha White at twhite@defenders.org

Coffee/Muffin To-Go Station
Pick up box lunches for field trips
Board buses

Transportation Challenges in Coastal San Diego County
(Field Trip Option #1)

This trip will begin with a stop at the South Bay Unit of the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge. With 90-100% of submerged lands, intertidal mudflats, and salt marshes eliminated in the north and central San Diego Bay, the South San Diego Bay refuge, dedicated in 1999, will preserve and restore the remaining wetlands, mudflats, and eel grass beds to help ensure the survival of the bay’s thousands of migrating and resident shorebirds and waterfowl. The bay supports numerous endangered and threatened species of plants and animals and is a vital link to other wildlife areas. All of the refuges in the San Diego Refuge Complex have been designated "Globally Important Bird Areas" by the American Bird Conservancy; the South San Diego Bay Refuge was recently designated as a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve site.

The tour will proceed north along the Silver Strand, a narrow neck of land that connects the mainland to Coronado “Island” and separates San Diego Bay from the Pacific Ocean. From Coronado, the tour will head across the Bay on the Coronado Bridge, and then up the coast on I-5. This leg of the trip will explore the challenges and opportunities for collaboration and stewardship on the 26-mile-long North Coast Corridor Project, and will include a picnic lunch on the beach.

Heading east, participants will visit the Pilgrim Creek Mitigation Bank, which is managed by Caltrans. Returning south on I-15, participants will see the effects and restoration challenges posed by the devastating 2003-04 wildfires, which were followed by the torrential rains of 2004-05.

Click for photos of the Coastal Field Trip.

Transportation Challenges in Inland San Diego County
(Field Trip Option #2)

This trip will focus on environmental challenges and opportunities addressed by recent transportation and mitigation projects in inland San Diego County. The tour will begin in southern San Diego County with a review of two projects near the international border. This leg of the tour will include some large vernal pool mitigation sites, as well as review of design features and mitigation measures to facilitate wildlife movement in the Otay Mesa area.

The tour will then head north on SR-94, where participants will see the effects and restoration challenges posed by the devastating 2003-04 wildfires. The next stop will be the Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve, operated by the California Department of Fish and Game. This site is an important component of the Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) multi-habitat preserve system in southwestern San Diego County, supporting large areas of coastal sage scrub, annual grasslands and riparian habitat. The Reserve is adjacent to the Otay-Sweetwater Unit of the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge.

After a picnic lunch and tour at the Reserve, the tour will head north and east to view wetlands mitigation sites along SR-56, as well as bridges over wildlife corridors.

Click for photos of the Inland Field Trip.

Session 9A: Streamlining, Stewardship, and Sustainability
(Moderator: Tom Linkous, Chair, TRB Task Force on Ecology and Transportation / Ohio Department of Natural Resources, USA)

• Species Conservation in Idaho: Going Beyond the
  Endangered Species Act
  (Brent Inghram, FHWA-Idaho Division, USA)
• Temporal Loss of Wetlands as Justification for Higher Mitigation Ratios
  (Paul Garrett, FHWA Headquarters, USA)
• Managing Environmental Compliance for Oregon Department of Transportation's OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program: Many Regulations - One Framework
  (Zak Toleda, Oregon Bridge Delivery Partners, USA)
• Oregon Department of Transportation’s OTIA III Bridge Program:
  400 Bridges – One Biological Opinion
  (Michael Bonoff, Mason, Bruce, & Girard, Inc., USA)

Session 9B: Wildlife Crossings – Planning, Selection, Placement, and Monitoring for Effectiveness
(Moderator: Chris Servheen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, University of Montana, USA)

• Wildlife Crossings in North America:
  The State of the Science and Practice
  (Patricia Cramer, Utah State University, USA)
• How Many Days to Monitor a Wildlife Passage? Species Detection Patterns and the Estimation of Vertebrate Fauna Using Crossing Structures in a Motorway
  (Juan Malo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
• The Design, Installation and Monitoring of Safe Crossing Points for Bats on a New Highway Scheme In Wales
  (Stephanie Wray, Cresswell Associates, United Kingdom)
• Highway Underpass Use by Large Mammals in Virginia and Factors Influencing their Effectiveness
  (Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council, USA)

Session 9C: Animal-Vehicle Collision Prevention and Reduction
(Moderator: Sandy Jacobson, USDA Forest Service, USA)

• Upgrading a 144km Section of Highway in Prime Moose Habitat : Where, Why and How to Reduce Moose-Vehicle Collisions
  (Yves Leblanc, Tecsult, Inc., Canada)
• Evaluation of Highway Modifications in Reducing Key Deer
  Mortality Along the US 1 Corridor
  (Anthony Braden, Texas A&M University, USA)
• What Features of the Landscape and Highway Influence Ungulate Vehicle Collisions in the Watersheds of the Central Canadian Rocky Mountains? A Fine-Scale Perspective
  (Kari Gunson, Parks Canada, Canada)
• A Probabilistic Approach to Estimating Road Lethality
  (John Waller, National Park Service, USA)

International Ballroom (Sorrento)

International Ballroom
(San Marino)

International Ballroom (Capri)

Break

Poster Session Set-Up

Foyer

Mediterranean Ballroom (Las Palmas thru Portofino)

Session 10A: Integrating Transportation and Resource Conservation Planning – Conservation Planning
(Moderator: Donna Pope, Florida DOT, USA)

• The Missing Linkages Project: Restoring Wildland Connectivity
  to Southern California
  (Wayne Spencer, Conservation Biology Institute, USA)
• Linking Colorado’s Landscapes
  (Julia Kintsch, Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, USA)
• Incorporating Results from the Prioritized “Ecological Hotspots”
  Model into the Efficient Transportation Decision Making (ETDM) Process in Florida
  (Daniel Smith, University of Central Florida, USA)
• The Swiss Defragmentation Programm
  (Marguerite Trocmé, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Switzerland)

Session 10B: Wildlife Impacts and Conservation Solutions – Small Mammals
(Moderator: Stephanie Stoermer, FHWA-California Division, USA)

• Addressing Habitat Fragmentation Impacts From Construction
  of a New Highway
  (Marion Carey, Washington State DOT, USA)
• Modeling the Effect of Roads and other Disturbances on
  Wildlife Populations in the Peri-Urban Environment to
  Facilitate Long-Term Viability
  (Daniel Ramp, University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Walking at Height
  (Hans Bekker, Ministry of Transport, The Netherlands)
• Effectiveness of Rope Bridge Overpasses and Faunal Underpasses in Providing Connectivity for Rainforest Fauna
  (Miriam Goosem, Rainforest CRC, Australia)

Session 10C: Animal-Vehicle Collision Prevention and Reduction
(Moderator: Paul Garrett, FHWA Headquarters, USA)

• OPTIFLUX : A Tool for Measuring Wild Animal Population Fluxes for the Optimization of Road Infrastructures
  (Philippe Thievent, SCETAUROUTE - Groupe EGIS, France)
• Use of GPS Telemetry to Assess Elk Highway Permeability and Compare Highway Crossing and Elk-Vehicle Collision Patterns (Norris Dodd, Arizona Game and Fish Department, USA)
• Use of Video Surveillance to Assess Wildlife Behavior and
  Use of Wildlife Underpasses in Arizona
  (Jeffrey Gagnon, Arizona Game and Fish Department, USA)
• Effects of Gender on Spatial and Temporal Patterns of
  Deer-Vehicle Collisions
  (Uma Ramakrishnan, Juniata College, USA)
• Reliability of the Animal Detection System Along HWY 191 in Yellowstone National Park, MT
  (Marcel Huijser, WTI-Montana State University, USA)

International Ballroom (Sorrento)

International Ballroom
(San Marino)

International Ballroom (Capri)

Keynote Luncheon
(Sponsored by Electrobraid Fence, Inc., and the MRUTC Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse and Sand County Foundation)
Facilitator: Sheila Mone, Caltrans, USA

Featured Speaker: Dr. Bruce Leeson, Senior Environmental Assessment Scientist, Parks Canada - Western Service Centre (Calgary)

Topic: "Beauty and the Beast - Human Dimensions in Ecology and Transportation"

Dr. Bruce Leeson will describe the lessons learned in thirty years of planning and building a highway for people and wildlife in Banff National Park, where the human factor of this undertaking posed far greater challenges than either the ecological science or engineering elements.

Session 11A: Poster Session

Session 11B: Integrating Transportation and Resource Conservation Planning – Landscapes & Road Networks
(Moderator: Joe Burns, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USA)

• Corridor Analysis for Transportation and Environmental Planning via Land Cover Mapping and Species Distribution Modeling
  (Michael McCoy, University of California at Davis, USA)
• Does the Configuration of Road Networks Influence the Degree to which Roads Affect Wildlife Populations?
  (Jochen Jaeger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
• Integrating Traffic, Network Location, and Surrounding Habitat
  to Create a Connected Landscape
  (Richard T.T. Forman, Harvard University, USA)
• The Ecologically Ideal Road Density for Small Islands:
  The Case of Kinmen, Taiwan
  (Shyh-Chyang Lin, National Kinmen Institute of Technology, Taiwan)

Mediterranean Ballroom (Las Palmas thru Portofino)

International Ballroom
(San Marino)

Session 12A: Poster Session (cont'd)

Session 12B: Wildlife Crossings – Planning, Selection, Placement, and Monitoring for Effectiveness
(Moderator: Vicki Sharpe, Florida DOT, USA)

• How Far into a Forest Does the Effect of a Road Extend?
  Defining Road Edge Effect in Temperate Australia
  (Zoe Pocock, Victoria, Australia)
• Ecological Impacts of SR 200 on the Ross Prairie Ecosystem
  (Daniel Smith, University of Central Florida, USA)
• Railroad Crossing Structures for Spotted Turtles
  (Steven Pelletier, Woodlot Alternatives, Inc., USA)
• Spotted Turtle Use of a Culvert under Relocated Route 44
  in Carver, Massachusetts
  (Kevin M. Walsh, Massachusetts Highway Department, USA)

Mediterranean Ballroom (Las Palmas thru Portofino)

International Ballroom
(San Marino)

Session 13A: Integrating Transportation and Resource Conservation Planning – Science and Partnerships
(Moderator: Hans Bekker, Ministry of Transport, The Netherlands)

• A GIS-Based Identification of Potentially Significant Wildlife Linkage Habitats Associated with Roads in Vermont
  (Kevin Viani, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, USA)
• Connecting Transportation and Wildlife Habitat Linkages Through Partnerships, Planning and Science Near Los Angeles, California
  (Ray Sauvajot, National Park Service, USA)
• Sierraville (California) Highway 89 Stewardship Team:
  Ahead of the Curve
  (Sandra Jacobson, USDA Forest Service, USA)
• Washington State DOT Highway Maintenance: Environmental Compliance for Protected Terrestrial Species
  (Tracie Caslin, Washington State DOT, USA)

Session 13B: Wildlife Ecology and High Speed Rail
(Sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife)
(Moderator: Cynthia Wilkerson, Defenders of Wildlife, USA)

This session will present general ecological impacts of High Speed Rail, with a focus on both positive elements and drawbacks. An overview of the California High Speed Rail Proposal will be presented and several perspectives on this proposal will explore various implications. The session will culminate with a moderated panel discussion, including the audience, regarding the California proposal.

Presenters include:

• Bill Gallagher, Rail Operations Consultant, Palm Springs, CA, USA
• Dick Cameron, Senior Conservation Planner, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Kristeen Penrod, Executive Director, South Coast Wildlands Project, Idyllwild, CA, USA
  

International Ballroom (Sorrento thru Capri)

International Ballroom (Riviera)

Session 14: Research and Resources - What’s Coming Up?
(Facilitator: Alison Berry, UC-Davis Road Ecology Center, USA)

• Federal Resource Guide. Eco-Logical: An Ecosystems Approach to Infrastructure Projects (Tom Pettigrew, USDA Forest Service, USA)
• National Academy of Sciences Report. Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (Paul Wagner, Washington State DOT, USA)
• National Highway Institute Course. Stream Impacts and Restoration (Paul Garrett, FHWA Headquarters, USA)
  

Session 15: Conference Wrap-Up, Session Highlights
(Facilitator: Leroy Irwin, Conference Chair)