A Wildlife Underpass to Mitigate Turtle Road Mortality along State Highway 66 in Central Wisconsin

Dr. Zani is a professor at UW-Stevens Point. He grew up in eastern Ohio catching frogs, toads, salamanders, and turtles. He used to keep turtles during the summer as pets and was fascinated with herptiles of all kinds. He went to college knowing he wanted to do research on reptiles and have essentially done that for the past 25 years of his life.  In grad school Dr. Zani spent time as a research assistant for a pair of professors who were inventorying the reptiles and amphibians of the Amazon and so traveled with them to Brazil, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. Since then, he has become more interested in the temperate zone and understanding how animals cope with extremely seasonal environments, especially winter.  Dr. Zani’s research tends to focus on the implications of climate limitations and how a changing climate might alter those limitations for individuals, populations, and species. His approach combines…