Wildlife Afield is a publication of the
Biodiversity Centre for Wildlife Studies,
based in Victoria, BC. They have published
a supplement to the January - June 2006
edition (Vol. 3 No. 1), which features
articles on roads and wildlife in British Columbia.
Journal copies may be ordered from the
BCFWS website http://www.wildlifebc.org/
Articles include:
Hesse, S. Gayle. Collisions with Wildlife: An Overview of Major Wildlife Vehicle Collision Data Collection Systems in British Columbia and Recommendations for the Future. [PDF - 1543kb]
Preston, Michael I., Larry Halverson and Gayle Hesse. Mitigation Efforts to Reduce Mammal Mortality on Roadways in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia. [PDF - 3530kb]
Rea, Roy V., Eric K. Rapaport, Dexter P. Hodder, Michael V. Hurley, and Nicole A. Klassen. Using Wildlife Vehicle Collision Data, Expert Opinions and GPS Technology to More Accurately Predict and Mitigate Vehicular Collisions with Wildlife in Northern British Columbia. [PDF - 843kb]
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Collisions Involving Motor Vehicles and Large Animals in Canada. 2003. L - P Tardiff & Associates Inc. Prepared for Transport Canada Road Safety Directorate.
View the full Report [PDF - 130kb]
This report provides a comprehensive look at the wildlife vehicle collision issue from a Canadian perspective. It contains a literature review, statistics from across Canada, a mitigation methods review, and provides a summary of the key findings. It focuses also on documenting the underestimation of the number of animal vehicle collisions in Canada. This report estimates that between 4 to 8 large animal vehicle collisions take place every hour in Canada.
Using Collision Data, GPS Technology and Expert Opinion to Develop Strategic Countermeasure Recomendations for Reducing Animal-Vehicle Collisions in Northern Britsh Columbia. 2006. Road Health-University Wildlife Collision Mitigation Research Team. Unpublished Report. Prince George, BC. 145 p.
This report analyses 10 years of ICBC animal collision data in northern BC from 1996-2005; reports on the use of a portable GPS device, the Otto Driving Companion (TM), to record information on live and dead deer and moose along specified highway routes; provides results from an expert opinion study on common locations for wildlife collisions and provides results from a survey of logging truck drivers on the occurrence of encounters between truck drivers and moose on local area roads.
Overview of Technologies Aimed at Reducing and Preventing Large Animal Strikes. 2003. Standards Research and Development Branch. Road Safety and Motor Vehicle Regulation Directorate. Transport Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
View the full Report [PDF - 327kb]
Modifying Roadside Vegetation Management Practices to Reduce Vehicular Collisions with Moose Alces alces. Rea, R. V., Wildlife Biology. 9: 2 (2003).
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The Impact of the Timing of Brush Management on the Nutritional Value of Woody Browse for Moose Alces alces. 2001. Rea, R. V. and M. P. Gillingham. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (4): 710 - 719.
View the Abstract . (Scroll down the web page to Abstract 710)
Of Moose and Mud. Rea, Roy V., and Roy V. Rea Sr. Public Roads [online]. Sept/Oct 2005. U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
Wildlife Protection System
Use of Infrared Camera Video Footage from a Wildlife Protection System to Assess Collision-Risk Behaviour by Deer in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia. 2003. Kinley, T. A., H. Page, N. J. Newhouse. Prepared for the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia.
View the full Report [PDF - 453kb]
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