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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb explores how roads fragment habitats, redirect water, spread pollution, and kill animals even as they connect human communities. Traveling with scientists and engineers, he follows efforts to build wildlife crossings, restore migration routes, redesign culverts, and reconsider transportation planning. Examples involving bears, frogs, fish, mountain lions, and countless smaller species reveal roads as ecological forces rather than neutral pavement. Goldfarb shows that road ecology can reduce collisions and repair damaged landscapes, while asking societies to balance mobility with the needs of the living world.

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Publication date: 2023
Format: Print edition
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781324005896

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Nature: Animals – Wildlife Nature: Ecology Nature: Environmental Conservation & Protection – General Science: Life Sciences – Ecology Technology & Engineering: Civil – Highway & Traffic

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