{"id":393,"date":"2015-03-30T01:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T08:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2015-03-16T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T06:54:58","slug":"wildways-and-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/featured\/wildways-and-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildways and Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"National<\/p>\n

The term ‘wildways’ is used in its broadest sense by the Wildlands Network<\/a> in its efforts to build interconnecting habitats for the benefit of migrating wildlife. \u00a0The concept, however, is not new.<\/p>\n

For decades the U.S. Forest Service has been developing land use plans around the notion of core habitats with connecting wildlife corridors. \u00a0 For example, areas of old-growth forest habitats are often protected from extractive activities and connected to similar habitats with corridors of special wildlife areas or non-motorized recreation areas. \u00a0It’s simply the idea of giving wide-ranging wildlife that needs certain habitats the ability to roam undisturbed among areas of the habitats they need.<\/p>\n

This notion has expanded to state and private lands when these land owners and managers get together to provide further habitat connections. \u00a0For example a state transportation department might work with the Forest Service to find ways for deer or elk to get across highways without dying in altercations with automobiles.<\/p>\n

The Wildlands Network expands\u00a0these concepts to a continental scale with long and broad corridors they define as:<\/p>\n