A mule-deer’s eye view of the project.

Four years after the electricity first flowed through the fences and shock-mats of the Tijeras Canyon wildlife collision mitigation project, it’s safe to say the project is a success. Collisions between vehicles and wildlife in the canyon have been drastically reduced. Still, you can learn not only what to do from the project, but gather some tips on what to avoid when putting together your own project too.

Read about this project’s successes in the last installment of this exclusive report, here.

Today we’ll tackle New Mexico’s plan to reduce collisions between vehicles and wildlife on a busy skein of highways outside of its largest city. The plan included state-of-the-art technology and techniques and makes a worthy blueprint for other ambitious highway mitigation highway projects.

Read the details of the wildlife collision mitigation plan here.

Tomorrow we’ll discuss how it all worked out.

Photo: courtesy Tijeras Canyon Safe Passage Coalition

Two weeks ago we mentioned a vehicle-wildlife collision mitigation project in New Mexico that had installed cutting-edge electro-shock mats to prevent wildlife from crossing a highway. The switch was flipped on those mats four years ago and there has been plenty of time to evaluate whether the ambitious and comprehensive mitigation project worked.

In a State Wildlife Research News exclusive report, over the next three days we’ll take a look at the wildlife collision problem at Tijeras Canyon, the state-of-the-art suite of solutions installed to solve it, and what has happened there over the last four years.

Today, we’ll take a look at the wildlife collision problem. Does this highway resemble any that you worry about?

Read part one of the story here.

Photo: I-40 east of Albuquerque, NM. Photo credit: courtesy of the Tijeras Canyon Safe Passage Coalition.