{"id":73,"date":"2012-01-12T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=73"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:28:31","slug":"73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/12\/73\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Bridges Maintain Habitat Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_79\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/wildlife_bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/wildlife_bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/wildlife_bridge.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/wildlife_bridge-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Bill Ruediger<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">Wildlife migration and habitat corridors often conflict with major road and highway systems. This photo depicts a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.conservationregistry.org\/tag\/habitat-and-highways\/\">wildlife bridge<\/a> in Montana designed to help large mammals, such as moose and bear, cross this highway safely. These bridges and other structures similar to them are designed to mitigate the impacts of road construction\u00a0on the affected\u00a0species and ecosystems, and could be a valuable conservation strategy for future roads built in Amazonia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife migration and habitat corridors often conflict with major road and highway systems. This photo depicts a wildlife bridge in Montana designed to help large mammals, such as moose and bear, cross this highway safely. These bridges and other structures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/12\/73\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}