NAACC Road-Stream Crossing Assessments (Terrestrial Organism Passage) in New Jersey

The goal of the NAACC collaborative, is to develop common protocols and training for assessing road-stream crossings across the thirteen-state region, and to house the field data collecting using those protocols, in a regional database that is accessible to the public. The purpose for creating a filtered New Jersey version of the database, which is linked to the larger regional database, is to make it as accessible to interested parties in New Jersey. Specifically, the road-stream crossing assessments have tremendous utility as a component of the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ, www.CHANJ.nj.gov) project. When the completed road-stream assessments are integrated with the CHANJ mapping, they can help identify opportunities to improve safe passage for wildlife in areas that occur within mapped wildlife habitat cores and corridors. Therefore, we want to make the NAACC database as accessible to CHANJ partners and potential partners as possible.