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.