Interstate Content

What Roadkill Is Costing California

Katherine E Kerlin — September 07, 2017 - 4:47pm

Collisions between vehicles and wildlife cost California $276 million in 2016, up about 20 percent from the previous year, according to an annual report from the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Road Ecology Center.

Using state data on over 13,000 traffic incidents during 2015 and 2016, the report maps stretches of California highways that are hotspots for wildlife-vehicle conflicts.

Southern California Mountain Lions’ Genetic Connectivity Dangerously Low

Katherine E Kerlin — June 14, 2017 - 11:00am

If a dangerously inbred puma population in Southern California is to survive in the future, an urgent need for genetic connectivity must be met, according to two scientific papers from a team of researchers coordinated by the University of California, Davis, and involving scientists at the University of Wyoming and the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.