
Providing safe passage for urban wildlife
This guidebook, Achieving Landscape Permeability in an Urban Environment: Wildlife Crossings, providing safe passage for urban wildlife, provides recommendations to enhance the design and effectiveness of transportation planning processes within the context of evolving and complex scientific information and research. Implementing improved transportation planning processes will help to ensure Portland area roadways allow for the greatest possible movement of native fish and wildlife for the conservation of these species, while ensuring the safety of the motoring public. Both enhance the quality of life of Oregonians that value healthy fish and wildlife populations.
This guidebook complements the previous and ongoing work of Metro, including Metro’s Green Streets, Trees for Green Streets, Creating Livable Streets and Green Trails guidebooks as well as the work of others in the Portland
metropolitan area focused on inventorying, characterizing, and connecting important habitats for native fish and wildlife. The guidebook provides information on:
Published August 2009
Guidelines for Managing and Restoring Natural Plant Communities along Trails and Waterways
posted Sep 18, 2023
These guidelines are designed to assist resource managers in conducting management activities that enhance the quality of natural plant communities, wildlife habitat, regional landscape integrity and visual quality, particularly as related to planning, development, and maintenance of trails, water trails, and water access sites.
Sustaining Wildlife With Recreation on Public Lands
posted Jul 20, 2021
A Synthesis of Research Findings, Management Practices, and Research Needs
posted Jul 1, 2021
Horses have been suggested to be an important source for the introduction of non-native plant species along trails, but the conclusions were based on anecdotal evidence.
A Landscape-Scale Approach to Refuge System Planning
posted Jul 28, 2020
Team (PIT) was chartered to address this recommendation from Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 21st century strategic vision for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Our charge was to investigate how Refuge System planning will address large-scale conservation challenges such as climate change, while maintaining the integrity of management and conservation delivery within our boundaries.