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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Greg Chernoff (GIS technical support) Defenders of Wildlife Canada Miistakis Institute University of Calgary, Department of Geography Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative PAGE 2 IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY ACROSS BANFF’S TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 PART I: THE CONTEXT 7 INTRODUCTION 7 BACKGROUND 8 YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON 8 MITIGATING THE FRAGMENTARY EFFECTS OF ROADS 8 SIGNIFICANCE OF BANFF NATIONAL PARK AND THE BOW RIVER VALLEY 11 THE FRAGMENTATION EFFECTS OF THE TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY 13 EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY MITIGATIONS 15 PART II: THE RESEARCH 17 PURPOSE 17 BACKGROUND 17 METHODS 18 MULTI-SPECIES DATA COLLECTION 18 SPATIAL DATA DERIVATION AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 20 RESULTS 20 SPECIES-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS 21 SINGLE- AND MULTI-SPECIES LINKAGE ZONES 27 PART III: THE IMPLICATIONS 31 What, where and how much? 31 ASSESSING THE CURRENT PROPOSAL 32 A FEW CLOSING WORDS 37 APPENDIX I 38 SPATIAL DATA DEVELOPMENT: SPECIES PRESENCE AND PREDICTIVE ATTRIBUTES 38 SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS: LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND PREDICTIVE MODELS 39 MODEL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 39 SPECIES ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS 39 (COEFFICIENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST TO DR. S. M. ALEXANDER.) 39 IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY ACROSS BANFF’S TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY PAGE 3
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