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Assignment:

Questions-

1. How are the materials examples of interdisciplinary research?

2. What disciplines are involved in these projects and what are these projects working to solve?

3. Which research methodology--qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods--did the researchers use to develop each project? state examples.

4. List other kinds of interdisciplinary projects that could form from the themes of these issues?

5. State how a psychology concentration might approach issues related to roads, infrastructure, conservation, and/or roadkill.

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Videos:

Wildlife crossings stop roadkill. Why aren't there more?

A Tale of Two Mountain Lions | SoCal Connected | KCET

Reading

""This history of roadkill and its network of animals, naturalists, roads, cars, verges, fences, engineers, game managers, animal underpasses, and road ecologists has largely evaded the attention of environmental historians. 58 This has happened, I suggest, for the same reasons that naturalists, game managers, ecologists, conservationists, and even animal rights activists have been so reluctant, aside from small minorities in each group, to make road environments serious topics of research. All of us, with a few exceptions no doubt, view America's experiment with automobility as a social, economic, and environmental tragedy. This is part of Leopold's legacy, and the validity of the automobility critique is beyond question. But we may be missing a wonderful opportunity to examine an environment where a whole lot of nature and culture come together-figuratively and literally. Roads, just like train tracks, airfields, and even sea-lanes, are part of our respiring network of transportation geographies that teem with life and death.

The histories of these places-the people who design and maintain them, the vehicles that move through them, as well as the fauna and flora that inhabit them-do not fit evenly into the environmental historiography of wilderness, wildlife, urbanization, suburbanization, conservation, and environmentalism-though all are implicated in one way or another. Instead, the history of roadkill follows a different trajectory into an area where environmental histories overlap with the histories of transportation infrastructure. And so the question of how roads fit into the context of environmental history may be less important than understanding how the environment fits into the context of infrastructural history. From this vantage, it seems clear that roadkill history is really a story about a country accommodating to the way we have refashioned our lives and environments around the imperative for mass mobility. Naturalists, game managers, and road ecologists attempted to understand and reconcile the mobilities of the ever-accelerating human species with the vastly changed mobilities of North American wildlife.59 And so Leopold-if only for a few moments-became an architect of a novel middle ground-the right- of-way.

From this perspective, the history of roadkill and their environments contributes to recent popular discussions dealing with the anthropocene, rambunctious gardens, and environmental management in the "post-nature" age.60 It seems that William Cronon's in- vocation that we-as citizens-begin to think carefully about the wildness in quotidian spaces, like our backyards and our neighborhoods, has gained purchase among some environmental managers and restoration ecologists who are beginning to come to terms with living in a world where humanity's impacts are ubiquitous and geologic in scale.61 While it is still unclear where this new understanding may be headed, environmental historians can point to examples that provide maps to help us navigate the terrain of the anthropocene.

Management of the plants and animals in the highway right-of-way is just one example. GaryKrollis an associate professor in the History D"epartment at SUNY Plattsburgh. He teaches environmental history and the history of science and studies the histories of twentieth-century natural history.""

- An Environmental History of Roadkill: Road Ecology and the Making of the Permeable Highway by Gary Kroll