The burrowing owl depends mainly on the abandoned burrows of prairie dogs for nesting sites and shelter. (Tony Leukering)

Pueblo goldenweed (Susan Spackman Panjabi)

Massasauga rattlesnake (John Sovell)

Related Links

• Critter Crossings: Linking Habitats and Reducing Roadkill
  www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlifecrossings

• Defenders of Wildlife
  www.defenders.org/habitat/highways

• Environmental Protection Agency: Educational Resources - Ecosystems
  • Students (Grades 5-8)
    http://www.epa.gov/students/ecosystems.html
  • High School Students (Grades 9-12)
    www.epa.gov/highschool/ecosystems.htm
  
  

• International Conference on Ecology and Transportation
  www.icoet.net/

• Izaak Walton League of America: Save Our Streams
  www.iwla.org/

• Keeping it Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads
  www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlifeprotection

• National Mitigation and Conservation Banking Annual Conference
  http://mitigationbankingconference.com

• The Nature Conservancy
  http://nature.org

• NatureServe
  www.natureserve.org

• North Carolina State University Stream Restoration Institute
  www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/sri/

• Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
  www.rmef.org/

• Society for Ecological Restoration International
  http://ser.org

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Ecosystem Conservation
  http://ecosystems.fws.gov

• U.S. Geological Survey: Biological Resources
  http://biology.usgs.gov

• Wildlife Crossings Toolkit
  www.wildlifecrossings.info