Autumn Equinox 2004, Volume 9 #3

When Wildlands CPR was formed in 1994, the scientific basis linking roads and biodiversity was still rudimentary, although field biologists and conservationists had long been aware of road-related problems such as roadkill, landslides, and pollution. As early as the 1920s, scientists kept track of roadkill rates across the United States, Canada, and Scandinavia, where collisions with large mammals often resulted in human injury or fatalities. Beyond simply counting roadkill, however, little research attention was directed at roads — until recently.