Roads Working Group Plans

Roads and road traffic negatively impact reptiles and amphibians directly via road mortality and reduced population connectivity, and indirectly by causing habitat loss, habitat degradation, and increased access to populations. The Roads Working Group was formed at the 2007 NEPARC meeting. This is the regional component of the national PARC Roads Task Force. The goal is to create a document with a set of recommendations for the planning process in road construction to help make roads more herp-friendly from the beginning (rather than expensive retrofitting), and to identify appropriate measures for mitigation and maintenance on existing roads.