REMOTELY URBAN
2023-ongoing
Type: Research
A design research project that investigates places where built environment meets wildlife corridors within one the largest nearly intact temperate ecosystems remaining in the world.
Scientists revealed movement of animals across vast landscapes of Greater Yellowstone as well as current and potential barriers to this movement. In some places measures are being taken to facilitate the movement and overcome the barriers. This project sets out to understand and visualize how built environment wildlife encounters along the way, be it obstructive, conducive or neutral, looks like, feels like and functions.
Distribution of the Yellowstone grizzly bear, 2000-2014. (interpreted from Peck et al. , Potential Paths for Male-mediated Gene Flow to and from an Isolated Grizzly Bear Population. )
(Adopted from Peck et al., “Potential Paths for Male-Mediated Gene Flow to and from an Isolated Grizzly Bear Population.”)
Kauffman, Matthew J., ed. Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2018.
Peck, Christopher P., Frank T. van Manen, Cecily M. Costello, Mark A. Haroldson, Lisa A. Landenburger, Lori L. Roberts, Daniel D. Bjornlie, and Richard D. Mace. “Potential Paths for Male-Mediated Gene Flow to and from an Isolated Grizzly Bear Population.” Ecosphere 8, no. 10 (October 2017): e01969. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1969.
Schwartz, Charles C., Patricia H. Gude, Lisa Landenburger, Mark A. Haroldson, and Shannon Podruzny. “Impacts of Rural Development on Yellowstone Wildlife: Linking Grizzly Bear Ursus Arctos Demographics with Projected Residential Growth.” Wildlife Biology 18, no. 3 (September 2012): 246–57. https://doi.org/10.2981/11-060.