Program Overview

The Road Ecology Program seeks to provide national leadership in understanding the interaction between roads, natural resources, and the environment. We strive to develop and implement solutions through research, education, outreach, and communications.

To succeed, our program works to ensure:

• State-of-the-art science is applied in the development and restoration of surface transportation systems across the nation;
• Transportation policies are developed and programmatically applied to protect the environment;
• Road ecology is an established multidisciplinary academic field at Montana State University and other higher education institutions;
• Environmentally sound transportation systems are recognized by society as an important component of America’s quality of life.

DEFINITION: Road ecology is the study of the complex interaction between roads and the environment over scales of space and time.

Contact:
Rob Ament
rament@coe.montana.edu
406-994-6423