Wildland Resources Research Featured in National Media
Utah State University researchers John Bissonette and Patricia Cramer were featured in a Dec. 30 article, “Survey aims to cut down roadkill,” in The Chicago Tribune, which was repeated in media outlets throughout the country. The pair recently completed a federally funded survey of highway wildlife crossings throughout North America in an effort to increase awareness of ways to prevent animal-vehicle collisions. Such collisions result in an average of 200 human deaths throughout the nation each year.
A professor in the College of Natural Resources’ Department of Wildland Resources, Bissonette is head of the U.S. Geological Survey Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at USU. Cramer is a research ecologist in Wildland Resources and the USGS research unit, as well as USU’s Utah Transportation Center.
Related links:
- “Survey Aims to Cut Down Roadkill,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 30, 2007
- “Fatal accidents involving deer,” KSL-TV News, Nov. 26, 2007
- Bissonette and Cramer’s Wildlife and Roads research Web site
- “Sharing the Roaded Landscape,” Utah State Today
- USU Department of Wildland Resources
- USU College of Natural Resources
USU wildlife ecologist Patricia Cramer poses in a wildlife crossing under Highway 89 in Utah's Wellsville Canyon.
Wildland Resources researchers John Bissonette and Patricia Cramer were recently featured in national media.
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