• Stewart Airport Ecosystem: Taking Off with Innovative Approaches (Debra Nelson, New York State DOT, Albany, NY, USA)
• Supporting Transportation, Water, and Ecological Systems in the Great Lakes Basin (Judy Beck, Great Lakes National Program Office, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Arizona's Wildlife Linkages Assessment (Siobhan Nordhaugen, Arizona DOT, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
• Overcoming the Barrier Effect of Roads:  How Effective Are Mitigation Strategies? (Rodney van der Ree, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

• A Profile of Safe Harbor Agreements Available Under the Endangered Species Act: Applicability to Endangered Species Mitigation Banking (Jeff Weller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta, GA, USA)
• Streamlining ESA Section 7 Consultations: Bedell Street Bridge Project, Del Rio, Texas (Allison Arnold, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin, TX, USA)
• Oregon DOT’s OTIA III Bridge Program: Three Years of Environmental Stewardship (Shelley Richards, HDR Engineering, Inc., Salem, OR, USA)
• Regulatory Compliance on Multistate and Multimodal Projects:  Bridging the Gaps Between States and Among NEPA Co-leads (Heather Gundersen, Oregon Department of Transportation, Vancouver, WA, USA)

• Goals, Pros, and Cons of a Massive Increase in Roadside Woody Vegetation (Richard T.T. Forman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Preventing the Spread of Invasive Plants via Alaska’s Linked Road and River Networks:  Identifying Critical Points of Control (Michael Shephard, USDA Forest Service, Anchorage, AK, USA)
• Prescribed Fire is Cool on Florida Highway (Jeff Caster, Florida DOT, Tallahassee, FL, USA)
• Establishment Success of Native Versus Non-native Herbaceous Seed Mixes on a Revegetated Roadside in Central Texas (Jeannine Tinsley, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA)

• North American Decision Guidelines for Mitigating Roads for Wildlife (John Bissonette, USGS Utah Cooperative Research Unit, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA)
• Animal-Vehicle Collision Data Collection Throughout the United States and Canada (Marcel Huijser, Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• Can Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions be Decreased by Increasing the Number of Wildlife Passages in Korea? (TaeYoung Choi, Environmental Planning Institute, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea)
• Inventory and Typology of Fauna Passages on French Transport Structures (Christophe Pineau, SETRA [French Technical Service of Roads and Motorways], Bagneux, Ile de france, France)

Session 4A (Concurrent):
Wildlife & Terrestrial Ecosystems (Herpetiles)
(Mon., 3:30-5:00 PM)

• Use of Existing Mitigation Measures by Amphibians, Reptiles, and Small- to Medium-Size Mammals in Hungary: Crossing Structures Can Function as Multiple Species-Oriented Measures (Miklós Puky, Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Jávorka, Hungary)
• Effectiveness of Amphibian Mitigation Measures Along a New Highway (Jed Merrow, McFarland-Johnson, Inc., Concord, NH, USA)
• Landscape Connectivity in Fragmented Habitat: Lizard-eyed Views (Jody Taylor, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)
• Road Effects on a Population of Copperhead Snakes in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, KY (Valorie Titus, Binghamton University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA)

Session 4B (Concurrent):
Transportation Operations – Part II of III
(Mon., 3:30-5:00 PM)

• Conservation Management of Historic Road Reserves in Australia (Peter Spooner, Charles Sturt University, Albury, New South Wales, Australia)
• Developing Fauna-Friendly Transport Structures (Christof Elmiger, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Bern, Switzerland)
• Effective Wetland Mitigation Site Management: Plant Establishment to Closeout (Bob Thomas, Washington State DOT, Olympia, WA, USA)
• Impacts of a Road Network on Space and Habitat Use of Moose (Christine Dussault, University du Quebec a Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada)

• State of the Art and New Developments Concerning Defragmentation in Europe (Hans Bekker, Road and Hydraulic Engineering Institute, Directorate of Public Works and Water Management, Delft, The Netherlands)
• Watershed Approaches to Compensatory Mitigation: Using Comprehensive Mitigation Planning to Achieve More Effective Mitigation for Transportation Projects (Jan Cassin, Parametrix, Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA)
• Integrating Wildlife Crossings into Transportation Plans in Projects in North America (Patricia Cramer, USGS Cooperative Unit, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA)
• Missing Linkages: Nationwide Survey of State-Based Habitat Connectivity and/or Wildlife Linkage Analyses (Jesse Feinberg, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC, USA)

• Application of Ecological Assessments to Regional and Statewide Transportation Planning (Joe Burns, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arlington, VA, USA)
• Integrated Transportation and Ecosystem Enhancements for Montana: Adapting the Eco-Logical Framework for Montana (Amanda Hardy, Western Transportation Institute, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• Justifying Environmental Stewardship: Oregon Department of Transportation’s Wildlife Collision Prevention Plan Case Study (Melinda Trask, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem, OR, USA)
• Habitat Linkage within a Transportation Network (Sherri Swanson, HDR Engineering, Inc., Sarasota, FL, USA)

Session 5B (Concurrent): Transportation Operations – Part III of III
(Tues., 8:30-10:00 AM)

• Washington State DOT Bridge Maintenance and Inspection Guidance for Protected Terrestrial Species (Marion Carey, Washington State DOT, Olympia, WA, USA)
• Dark Beaches: Florida DOT’s Continued Efforts to Implement Environmentally Sensitive Lighting Systems (Ann Broadwell, Florida DOT District 4, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
• Oregon Strategies for Transportation Compliance with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (Chris Maguire, Oregon DOT, Salem, OR, USA)
• Canasawacta Creek Watershed Initiative (Mary O’Reilly, New York State DOT Region 9, Binghampton, NY, USA)

Session 6A (Concurrent):
Wildlife & Terrestrial Ecosystems (Partnerships for Success)
(Tues., 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

• Measuring the Success of Wildlife Movement Across Highways and Linkage Efforts (Christopher Servheen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Missoula, MT, USA)
• Case Study: Harbor Boulevard Wildlife Underpass, Los Angeles County, CA (Andrea Gullo, Habitat Authority, Whittier, CA, USA)
• Under the Boardwalk (Ian Buchanan, Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada)
• Citizen Advocacy and Monitoring for the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project (Jen Watkins, I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition, Seattle, WA, USA)

Session 6B (Concurrent):
Fisheries & Aquatic Ecosystems–Part I of II
(Tues., 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

• Strategic Approach for Identification and Correction of Fish Passage on National Forest Lands for Pacific Northwest (David Heller, USDA Forest Service, PNW Region, Portland, OR, USA)
• Influence of Road Crossings on Fish Movement and Fish Communities in Ouachita Mountain Streams, Ouachita National Forest (Richard Standage, Ouachita National Forest, USDA Forest Service, Hot Springs, AR, USA)
• Juvenile Salmon Passage in Sloped-Baffled Culverts (David Thurman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
• Protecting and Enhancing River and Stream Continuity (Scott Jackson, University of Massachusetts Extension, Amherst, MA, USA)

Session 7B (Concurrent):
Fisheries & Aquatic Ecosystems–Part II of II
(Tues., 1:30-3:00 PM)

• Erasing the False Hard Line Between Aquatic and Terrestrial Passages: Recommendations for Integrating Objectives in Transportation Planning (Sandra Jacobson, USDA Forest Service, Arcata, CA, USA)
• Inventory and Sediment Modeling of Unpaved Roads for Stream Conservation Planning (Ethan Inlander, The Nature Conservancy, Fayetteville, AR, USA)
• Assessment of Freshwater Mussel Relocation as a Conservation Strategy (Andrew Peck, Arkansas State University, Little Rock, AR, USA)
• Habitat Restoration and Mitigation on the Impact of a Transportation Network on Hyporheic Organisms Dwelling in the Upper Ganges, India (Ramesh Sharma, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, Uttaranchal, India)

• Green Infrastructure, Environmental Mitigation and Transportation Planning in Kansas City (Tom Jacobs, Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, MO, USA)
• Impacts of Different Growth Scenarios in the San Joaquin Valley, CA (Karen Beardsley, Information Center for the Environment, Davis, CA, USA)
• Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan and Regional Transportation Planning: A Case Study in Challenges for Protecting and Restoring Wildlife Connectivity in Urbanized Areas (Carolyn Campbell, Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, Tucson, AZ, USA)
• Limitations to Wildlife Habitat Connectivity in Urban Areas (Melinda Trask, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem, OR, USA)

• Construction of a Highway Section Within a White-Tailed Deer Winter Yard Near Quebec City, Quebec, Canada: Mitigation Measures, Monitoring, and Preliminary Results (Yves Leblanc, Tecsult Inc., Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)
• Using Site-Level Factors to Model Areas at High Risk of Deer-Vehicle Collisions on Arkansas Highways (Philip Tappe, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR, USA)
• Evaluation of Sound as a Deterrent for Reducing Deer-Vehicle Collisions (Sharon Valitzski, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA)
• Evolution of Wildlife Exclusion Systems on Highways in British Columbia Highways (Leonard Sielecki, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, Victoria, BC, Canada)

• Habitat, Highway Features, and Animal-Vehicle Collision Locations as Indicators of Wildlife Crossing Hotspots (Sarah Barnum, New Hampshire Audubon, Concord, NH, USA)
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Wildlife Passage Structures on the Bennington Bypass (Mark Bellis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Wilmington, VT, USA)
• Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Vertebrates Roadkill Rates in the Extreme South of Brazil (Alex Bager, Faculdades Atlantico Sul Pelotas, RS, Brazil)
• Surveying and Modeling Roadkills (Shyh-Chyang Lin, National Kinmen Institute of Technology, Kinmen, Taiwan)

• Wildlife Mitigation and Human Safety for Sterling Highway Milepost 58-79, Kenai Peninsula, AK (Richard Ernst, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Soldotna, AK, USA)
• Use of Global Positioning System Telemetry to Assess the Effectiveness of Measures to Promote Permeability Across a Highway in Central Arizona (Norris Dodd, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Pinetop, AZ, USA)
• Effects of Traffic Volume on Elk Distribution and Crossing Patterns Along an Arizona Highway (Jeff Gagnon, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
• Transportation Corridors in Arizona and Mexico and Pronghorn: Case Studies (Richard Ockenfels, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, AZ, USA)

• Management Considerations for Designing Carnivore Highway Crossings (Bill Ruediger, Wildlife Consulting Resources, Missoula, MT, USA)
• Patterns of Carnivore Road Casualties in Southern Portugal (Clara Grilo, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)
• Major Roads: A Filter to the Movement of the Squirrel Glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) (Silvana Cesarini, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
• Roads and Desert Small Mammal Communities: Positive Interaction? (Silvia Rosa, Utah State University, Almada, Portugal)

Session 11B (Concurrent):
Integrating Transportation & Conservation Planning (State Wildlife Action Plans)
(Thur., 1:30-3:00 PM)

• Unanimous! What the State Wildlife Action Plans Have to Say About Transportation and Wildlife (Patricia White, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC, USA)
• State Wildlife Action Plans: State Wildlife Agencies and Transportation Agencies Working Together to Prevent Wildlife from Becoming Endangered (David Chadwick, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Washington, DC, USA)
• Using Tools that Support Decision-Making Toward Multiple Benefits in Transportation and Conservation (Shara Howie, NatureServe, Boulder, CO, USA)
• A Multi-scale and Context-Sensitive Statewide Environmental Mitigation Planning Tool for Transportation Projects in California (James Thorne, Information Center for the Environment, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA)

• Introduction (Reed Noss, University of Central Florida, USA)
• Approach to Integrating Transportation and Conservation Planning: Examples from Florida (Daniel Smith, WTI, Montana State University, USA, and Reed Noss, University of Central Florida, USA)
• Effects of Roads and Traffic on Populations of Small Animals: Implications for Transportation Planning (Lenore Fahrig, Carlton University, Canada)
• Applications of Local-Scale Research for Planning and Evaluating Measures Designed to Restore Regional Landscape Connectivity (Anthony Clevenger, WTI, Montana State University, USA)
• Effects of roads on carnivore behavior and ecology in southern California:  movements, mortality, and gene flow. Seth Riley, R. M. Sauvajot, J. P. Pollinger, E. C. York, S. Ng, and R. K. Wayne (UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, USA)

Session 12B (Concurrent): Ecological Impacts of Other Transportation Modes
(Thur., 3:30-5:00 PM)

• Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad Bird Abatement and Related Roadkill Abatement (Roland Schlierf, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA)
• Quantifying Risk Associated with Potential Bird-Aircraft Collisions (Laurence Schafer, USDA/APHIS Wildife Services, Olympia, WA, USA)
• Trains, Grains, and Grizzly Bears: Reducing Wildlife Mortality on Railway Tracks in Banff National Park (Jim Pissot, Defenders of Wildlife Canada, Canmore, Alberta, Canada)
• Impacts of Ferry Terminals on Juvenile Salmon Movement along Puget Sound Shorelines (Ronald Thom, PNNL, Sequim, WA, USA)

Session 12C (Concurrent):
SCB North American Section Symposium - Reconciling Conservation Planning and
Transportation Planning on a Regional Scale
(Thur., 3:30-5:00 PM)

Continued from Session 11C
• Bighorn Sheep and Interstate Highways: Using Genetics to Optimize Connectivity Models for Managing the Landscape of the Future (Clinton W. Epps, J.D. Wehausen, V. C. Bleich, S. G. Torres, and J. S. Brashares, University of California at Berkeley, USA)
• Eight Reasons Not to Uuse GIS Analysis for Corridor Design (Paul Beier-presenter; Dan Majka and Wayne Spencer, Northern Arizona University, USA)
• Road Ecology in the Southern Rockies – Science, Policy and Outreach (Julia Kintsch, Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, USA)
• General Discussion and Questions

Session 13A (Concurrent): Integrating Transportation & Conservation Planning (State Case Studies)
(Fri., 8:30-10:00 AM)

• California’s Integrated Approach to Collaborative Conservation in Transportation Planning (Gregg Erickson, Caltrans, Sacramento, CA, USA)
• Linking Statewide Connectivity to Highway Mitigation: Taking the Next Step in Linking Colorado’s Landscapes (Julia Kintsch, Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, Denver, CO, USA)
• Wildlife Connectivity Across Utah’s Highways (Paul West, Utah DOT, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
• Patch Occupancy Models and Black Bear Management in the Southeastern Coastal Plain: A Potential Tool? (Jay Clark, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)

• Use of Habitat Suitability Indices (HSIs) for Evaluating Impacts to, and Assessing Mitigation for, Terrestrial Wildlife Habitats for Transportation Projects (Rick Black, HDR Engineering, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
• Is Strategic Environmental Assessment an Effective Tool to Conserve Biodiversity Against Transport Infrastructure Development? (Csaba Varga, BirdLife Hungary, Budapest, Hungary)
• Effects of Configuration of Road Networks on Landscape Connectivity (Jochen A.G. Jaeger, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
• Integrating Habitat Fragmentation Analysis Into Transportation Planning Efforts Using the Effective Mesh Size Landscape Metric (Evan Girvetz, Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA)

Session 14 (Plenary):
Public-Private Partnerships Panel Discussion
(Fri., 10:30-11:45 AM)

Session 15 (Plenary): Conference Wrap-Up
(Fri., 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM)

• Session Highlights
• Local Host Recognition
• ICOET 2009 Announcement

1. Culvert Retrofit Testing (Christopher May, Battelle PNNL, Sequim, WA, USA)
2. Design of Bridges and Culverts for Wildlife Passage: Development of a Guidance Handbook by the Massachusetts Highway Department (David Nyman, ENSR, Westford, MA, USA)
3. Long-Term Consequences of Winter Road Management Practices to Water Quality at High-Altitude Lakes Within the Adirondack State Park (New York State) (Tom Langen, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA)
4. Freshwater Mussel (Mollusca:unionidae) Habitat Variability and Movement Patterns Following Relocation: A Case Study of Potamilus capax (David Baldridge, Arkansas State University, State University, AR, USA)
5. New International Efforts for Freshwater Research, Education, and Conservation: A Report from the Society for Conservation Biology’s Freshwater Working Group (Nathaniel Hitt, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA)
6. Rewards of a Good Stream Restoration Project—Land Use, Water Quality, and Habitat: A “Win-Win” for a North Carolina Piedmont Stream (Thomas Barrett, Mulkey Engineers and Consultants, Inc., Raleigh, NC, USA)
7. Road Decommissioning: Minimizing the Adverse Ecological Effects of Roads in European Agricultural Landscapes (Lisa Dolan, University College Cork, Cork City, Cork, Ireland)
8. Salmon Resource and Sensitive Area Mapping Project: A Model for Integrating a Natural Resource GIS with Transportation Planning and Operations (Robert Carson, Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc., Portland, OR, USA)
9. Roadkill and Landscape Scales on the Californian Central Coast (Jordi Puig, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain)
10. Making Environmental Sustainability for Transportation Infrastructure a Reality: The Environmental Enhancement Fund in British Columbia (Leonard Sielecki, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, Victoria, BC, Canada)
11. GIS-based Identification of Habitat Cores and Corridors for Virginia DOT Project Planning and Environmental Scoping (Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
12. Simulation-Optimization Framework to Support Sustainable Watershed Development by Mimicking the Pre-Development Flow Regime (Emily Zechman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA)
13. Forest Service Back Roads: Utilization of GPS/GIS Technology for Acquiring Road Infrastructure Data in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests (Benjamin Gentry, Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Russellville, AR, USA)
14. Bats and Bridges: Promoting Species Conservation through Early Multi-agency Planning (Zak Toledo, HDR Engineering, Inc., Salem, OR, USA)
15. Riparian Restoration Plan for Stormwater Flow Control Management (Carl Ward, Washington State DOT, Olympia, WA, USA)
16. Summary of the 2006 Linking Conservation and Transportation Workshops (Patricia White, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC, USA)
17. Wildlife Use of Open and Decommissioned Roads on the Clearwater National Forest, ID (Adam Switalski, Wildlands CPR, Missoula, MT, USA)
    

Interactive Poster Displays (“Electronic Boutique”)

1. Process Design for Collaboration: An Innovative Approach to Redesigning the Environmental Review Process for Transportation Projects in Tennessee (Tom Crawford, Praxis Northwest, LLC, Olympia, WA, USA)
2. Web-based Approach to Compliance Reporting for Caltrans (Ivy Edmonds-Hess, Parsons Brinckerhoff, San Francisco, CA, USA)
3. Efficient Transportation Decision Public Web Site: Bridging the Gap between Transportation Planning and the Public (Ruth Roaza, URS, Tallahassee, FL, USA)

1. Relating Vehicle-Wildlife Crash Rates to Roadway Improvements (Rhonda Young, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA)
2. Validation of a Citizen-Science Highway Wildlife Monitoring Program (Kylie Paul, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA)
3. Summary of Strategic Agenda for Deer-Vehicle Crash Reduction: Data Collection, Research, Funding, Partnerships, and Technology Transfer (Keith Knapp, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX, USA)
4. Effectiveness of Black Bear Crossings on I-26 in Madison County, North Carolina (Elizabeth Jones, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA)
5. Limited Applications of Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Analyses for Transportation Planning and Mitigation Efforts Due to Spatial Inaccuracy (Kari Gunson, College of Environmental Studies and Forestry, Baldwinsville, NY, USA)
6. Overview of Recent Deer-Vehicle Collision Research in Arkansas (Philip Tappe, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR, USA)
7. Highway Median Impacts on Wildlife Movement and Mortality (Angela Kociolek, Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
8. Assessment of Field Method Efficacy to Monitor Wildlife Presence on Interstate 70 at Vail Pass (Paige Bonaker, Environmental Studies Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA)
9. Alternative to the Openness Ratio for Wildlife Crossing Structures Using Structure Physical Attributes and Behavioral Implications of Deer Vision and Hearing Capabilities (Sandra Jacobson, USDA Forest Service, Arcata, CA, USA)
10. Effects of a Purpose-Built Underpass on Wildlife Activity and Traffic-Related Mortality in Southern California (David Elliott, California State at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, USA)
11. Effects of US 1 Highway Improvements on Florida Key Deer Mortality (Israel Parker, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA)
12. Evaluating the Conservation Benefits of Wildlife Crossing Structures for Grizzly and Black Bear Populations in Banff National Park Using Noninvasive Genetic Sampling (Michael Sawaya, Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
13. Review of the Broad Effects Generated by Roads on Herpetofauna (Denim Jochimsen, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA)
14. On the Road with Herps: The Importance of Asking for Directions (Kimberly Andrews, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, USA)
15. Electrical Fence as a Measure to Reduce Moose-Vehicle Collisions (Christine Dussault, University du Quebec a  Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada)
16. Assessing the Stone Marten’s Patch Occupancy in Fragmented Landscapes and Its Relation to Road-Killing Occurrences (Fernando Ascensao, Faculdade de Ciaencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)

Interactive Poster Displays (“Electronic Boutique”)

1. Niche Models as a Tool in Integrating Transportation and Multiple Species Conservation Planning (Kristine Preston, Center for Conservation Biology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA)
2. Development of a Bald Eagle Habitat Assessment Tool and Its Application in Highway Planning (James Hatchitt, ARMASI Inc., Gainesville, FL, USA)
3. Analytical Framework for Wildlife Crossing Policy in California (James Quinn, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA)
4. Pre-assessment of Wildlife Movement Patterns in a Forested Habitat Prior to Highway Development – Prioritizing Methods for Data Collection to Couple Local and Landscape Information for the Development of Statistical Models (Kerry R. Foresman and Michael Krebs, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA)

White River Bridge Replacement, Clarendon, AR

Rixey Bayou Wetlands Mitigation Area and Fourche Creek Watershed Restoration Project/Little Rock Audubon Nature Center

The tour buses will depart from the hotel to the 235-acre Rixey Bayou wetlands mitigation area, developed in the early 1990s by Arkansas HTD to mitigate unavoidable wetlands impacts associated with the construction of the Northbelt Freeway and future projects in the Central Arkansas area. Just minutes from The Peabody Hotel, the Rixey Bayou tour will focus on the selection of this property by AHTD as a mitigation area, wetland creation and enhancement, ongoing maintenance, wildlife habitat protection and creation, and wildlife crossings and connectivity.

The second leg of the field trip will focus on Audubon Arkansas and its efforts to protect and restore one of the nation's largest urban wetlands: Fourche Creek. Fourche Creek drains 108,000 acres of Little Rock and surrounding areas. Its meandering channel braids and connects numerous wetlands, the largest being more than 2,500 acres. Audubon Arkansas is working in partnership with the City of Little Rock to develop the Little Rock Audubon Center in Southeast Little Rock. The center will serve the greater Little Rock area, with a targeted educational focus on children attending the 50 schools within 15 minutes of the site. Acreage surrounding the center includes both the city-owned Fourche Creek wetlands and the unique soils and plants of Granite Mountain in adjacent Gillam Park. The 2,000 acres available for use by the center offer a vast and richly diverse "lab" for young people to learn about conservation, restoration, wildlife and plants. Trails designed for a variety of learning experiences will surround the Center.

Fourche Creek drains the majority of Little Rock's surface water and storm water. During typical storm events, Fourche Creek's wetlands can store nearly 1 billion gallons of water. Its ecological functions include water purification, containment and storage of floodwaters, urban noise reduction, and wildlife habitat accommodation. Because hundreds of acres of the Fourche Creek wetlands are owned by the City of Little Rock and managed by Audubon Arkansas and the City Parks and Recreation Department, the potential for recreational use as a vast urban park is tremendous.

Float Trips on the Buffalo National River
Location: Outdoor Adventure (Reserve Your Spot By March 31!)
(Contact Mitch Wine, FWS Liaison to AHTD)

Walk or Bike the Arkansas River Trail
Accessible just steps from the Peabody Hotel, the completed sections of the Arkansas River Trail are a destination for some 1,500 residents on most weekend days.

URS Corporation
The Nature Conservancy

ICOET 2007 Steering Committee Meeting
Contact: Leroy Irwin, Conference Chair