Roads, more than lines on a map

It was also based in part on the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board’s Down the Road: The Effects of Roads and Trails on Wildlife. [...] CPAWS Wildlands League would like to thank Christine Cleghorn and the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board for allowing us to use their publication on the impacts of roads in the Yukon as a model and resource for our nation-wide product. [...] CPAWS Wildlands League gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution and support of the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation in the production of the Roads Project. [...] Woodland caribou have disappeared from close to half of their traditional habitat range over the past decade in the face of a rapidly spreading network of roads and development. [...] In Alberta, logging roads are often paralleled by oil and gas access roads and seismic lines – corridors cut through the forest as part of oil and gas exploration, dividing much of the province’s forest into a patchwork.