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If you have any questions on the information presented, or require additional report data or attachments, please contact the
Ministry.
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Our project a collaboration among the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the
University of Northern BC (UNBC), BC Conservation Foundation (BCCF) and including First
Nations field monitors and data-sharing assesses the impacts of major transportation
corridors on wildlife mortality and connectivity in the Peace region, within the area affected by
hydroelectric dam construction and related infrastructure.
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Author: Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
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Old Reference Number: PEA-F17-W-1463
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Old Reference System: FWCP Fish Wildlife Compensation Program - Peace
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Date Published: Apr 2017
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Report ID: 54240
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Audience: Government and Public
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Maintaining connectivity for the many native wildlife species that rely on the Peace region to
travel along the Rocky Mountain corridor, which connects the Rocky Mountain Park system
with the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area to the north, is crucial for their preservation and
well-being and aligns with the FWCP Species of Interest Action Plan. Specific actions are to
restore function of ungulate range by enhancing connectivity, identify limiting factors
(collisions) affecting moose populations/other important ungulate populations and make
recommendations to conduct habitat enhancement to benefit moose, elk, and deer
populations through the mitigation of roadside attractants that result in collisions, and highway
design/management that can result in fewer collisions. If wildlife cannot connect to other
populations it limits their genetic diversity, which will lead to long-term population decline.
Highways and resource roads in the Peace River Valley run through important ungulate and
carnivore habitat that has been curtailed by hydroelectric dam construction and
impoundments. Species displaced by the reservoirs have had to move to other habitats, many
of which are transected by roads or highways, further disrupting connectivity and habitat
linkages.
Two areas identified as particular challenges to maintaining wildlife connectivity within the
basin affected by dam construction and impoundments, are the Highway 29 and Highway 97
transportation corridors. Along these highways, woodland caribou, elk, moose, white-tailed
deer, mule deer, grizzly and black bear, and fisher suffer mortality due to wildlife-vehicle
collisions (WVCs) and/or they avoid the roads altogether, creating physical and genetic
discontinuities between populations.
Yet data about collisions data that would help to design modifications to reduce mortality for
vulnerable species, increase the availability of habitat for use and travel, and improve safety for
motorists is widely dispersed and has not been rigorously analyzed to identify spatial and
temporal collision trends.
Our project a collaboration among the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the
University of Northern BC (UNBC), BC Conservation Foundation (BCCF) and including First
Nations field monitors and data-sharing assesses the impacts of major transportation
corridors on wildlife mortality and connectivity in the Peace region, within the area affected by
hydroelectric dam construction and related infrastructure.
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Mammals - Ungulates |
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Mammals - Black Bear: Ursus americanus |
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Mammals - Caribou: Rangifer tarandus |
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Mammals - Grey Wolf: Canis lupus |
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Mammals - Grizzly Bear: Ursus arctos |
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Mammals - Moose: Alces alces |
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Region - Peace |
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