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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→

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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→

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