CorridorDesign

GIS tools and information for designing wildlife corridors

Our goal is to transfer everything we've learned about designing wildlife corridors to the general public to facilitate better conservation, science, and dialogue.

Learn about corridors

Learn the important conceptual & technical steps for designing wildlife corridors

Download GIS tools

Download CorridorDesigner, a suite of ArcGIS tools for designing and evaluating corridors

Linkage Designs

Download reports and GIS data for linkage designs created throughout Arizona


Corridor Design Blog

Aug 11 2010
Connectivity analysis toolkit now available

Carlos Carroll and the Klamath Center for Conservation recently released a new free tool that provides conservation planners with newly-developed tools for both linkage mapping and landscape-level 'centrality' analysis.

Jul 18 2010
Arizona curtails wildlife crossing structures

Arizona is giving up on wildlife crossing projects which make both humans and wildlife safer.

Feb 22 2010
New version of corridor evaluation tools now available

We have a new revision of the Corridor Evaluation tools available on the downloads page. Unfortunately, these tools might not work with the ArcGIS 10, which will be released in Summer 2010.

Dec 16 2009
$8 million to be spent on wildlife crossing structures north of Tucson, Arizona

Last Thursday, $8.2 million was authorized to be spent on 2 underpasses and 1 overpass for wildlife north of Tucson, AZ to provide connectivity between the Tortolita and Catalina Mountain...and our linkage design helped inform the effort!