Dry Piney Wildlife Project
February 12, 2025 @ 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Location: Kojo Kamau C – 4th Floor
Speaker: Peter Stinchcomb – WYDOT
Presentation Description:
The Wyoming Department of Transportation along with the Wyoming Game and Fish and many NGO partners have teamed up and used concrete box culverts and a concrete arch culvert to increase the safety of Wyoming’s highways for not only its users but wildlife as well.
Presentation objectives:
• Why concrete box culverts are used for wildlife crossings in Wyoming
• What is needed for wildlife to use these structures
• How we know these projects are successful
• See the results (Photos and Video of the usage)
The Presentation Outline:
• Identifying the problem
• Understanding the migration routes and collecting data
• Solutions tried / Solutions failed
• Why concrete boxes for crossings
• Working to identify locations
• Gaining an understanding of what works for what species
• Installation of wildlife crossings (What all is needed to make this work)
• The results are in (The data showing the effectiveness)
• Seeing it work (Photos and Videos)
Speaker Bio:
Peter Stinchcomb is the District 3 Construction Engineer for the Wyoming Department of Transportation, which encompasses the southwest corner of Wyoming and is located in the heart of Wyoming’s mule deer migration each winter.
Graduating from the University of Wyoming, Peter is a civil engineer with 18 years of highway design and construction experience. Peter was also a presenter at the Wyoming Wildlife Summit in 2020.
