The purpose of CROSPLAN is to support wildlife and wildlife crossing projects. The tool gives transportation planners a way to jump-start their project by providing a set of core data to help make decisions, and facilitates the designing and building of wildlife crossing structures and fencing. Here is a list of what CROSPLAN does for the transportation planner:
- It provides a way to access relevant data useful in mitigating wildlife-vehicle collisions, such as crossing structures and fencing.
- It clips spatial data to a 10 km x 10 km planning area and delivers them as a zipped packet.
- It provides data and metadata, and has links to the original data sources for more information.
- One can drop a point on a map at an existing structure or where a new structure is to be built, and it creates a species list at that location summarizing the suitable habitat for each.
- Uses the coefficients generated by our recent “Existing Structures” project to predict structure usage for a subset of species.
By simply selecting your study region on a map, this tool will provide a set of data that would be useful in determining the species present in the region, the landscape and land cover characteristics, the distance to various important land class features (such as distance to nearest stream), as well as light and sound estimates across study area.
CROSPLAN works in California based on the available data present and loaded into the system. We can make a CROSPLAN for your state should you wish to sponsor the project. Some of the data we use is already available on a national scale, so it may not require as much work as it seems. Please contact the project lead, Fraser Shilling (fmshilling@ucdavis.edu) for more information.
The site is under development and concurrently in beta testing. We expect to be in production later this year (2025).