Improving Infrastructure for Wildlife
34 NR&E 1 (2020)
5 Pages Posted: 25 Feb 2021
Karrigan Bork
UC Davis School of Law
Andrew Rypel
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Date Written: December 15, 2020
Abstract
In Washington v. United States, 584 U.S. ___ (2018), the Supreme Court required Washington State to improve fish passage through almost 1,000 culverts originally built to allow streamflow under roads and highways. The case highlighted conflicts between wildlife needs and infrastructure development. Fish passage through outdated or ill-designed culverts is only a small facet of the larger problem of outdated wildlife infrastructure. Impinged migration corridors for ungulates, turtles, and other mobile taxa; levees disconnecting floodplains from rivers; poor water temperature controls on dams; and eroding ecological productivity accompanying aging of reservoirs exemplify the types of challenges to wildlife created by contemporary infrastructure.
Keywords: Infrastructure, Wildlife, Conservation, Migration, Fish, Ungulates, Deer, Dams, Highways, Reservoirs
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Karrigan Bork (Contact Author)
UC Davis School of Law ( email )
Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall
Davis, CA CA 95616-5201
United States
202-271-9392 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://https://law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bork/
Andrew Rypel
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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