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Sprawl and highways hurt wildlife – so why aren’t states spending the available money to reduce the conflicts?

July 1, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
enhancements, fragmentation, habitat, roads, species, sprawl, transportation, wildlife

 While the emphasis of this blog is on community development and smart growth, one of the reasons I promote those solutions so enthusiastically is to reduce development pressure on our working and natural landscapes.  Many species of wildlife, in particular,...continued

Bye, bye, birdie

November 30, 2007

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
birds, greeninfrastructure, habitat, smartgrowth, species, sprawl, urbangrowthboundaries, wildlife

Earlier this week, the National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy released a new report warning that more than a quarter of the bird species in the US are in danger of extinction.  Suburban sprawl is among the principal...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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