The purpose of this site is to highlight - for the transportation community and for the traveling public - easy ways of reducing highway impacts on wildlife. Doing the right thing - simply

"Keeping it simple" is more than a concept. It's a commitment.

It means using simple solutions when simple solutions will work.

It involves going beyond "compliance" to identify easy ways of helping fish and wildlife.

It means doing the right thing just because it's the right thing to do and because one has an opportunity to do it.

"Doing simple things for wildlife when we get the chance is common sense," says Mary Peters, former FHWA Administrator. "Something as simple as installing a peregrine falcon box can make tremendous difference."

This website highlights more than 100 simple, successful activities from all 50 states and from FHWA's Western Federal Lands Division.

All these activities are "easy." Most are low- or no-cost. All benefit fish and wildlife or their habitat.

Many activities were done only once - to protect specific species in specific environmental conditions. Others have been done repeatedly and are still being done.

Some activities are performed routinely because research has proven them effective. Others are new innovations, "best practices," or state-of-the-art strategies.

Some activities - for example, modifying mowing cycles and installing bluebird boxes - are activities common to a large number of states. Others represent a simple solution to a site-specific environmental challenge.

We invite you to explore them all. We encourage you to find out for yourselves, through this website, how transportation professionals are working with others to do the right thing for wildlife and, wherever possible, to do it "simply."

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More Information: www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlifeprotection/