article_snippet.sent: Shilling said Caltrans is planning to build five new wildlife-crossing structures in the Bay Area because the data demonstrate both an immediate need and locations where structures would be useful.
article_snippet.sent: Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at University of Southern California, Davis, says it is the largest wildlife monitoring system in the state.
article_snippet.sent: it features more than 29,000 sightings of more than 390 of Southern California's 680 native vertebrate species.
article_snippet.sent: The report's findings cover about 40 per cent of the largest wildlife monitoring system in the state.
article_snippet.sent: These data help identify places where immediate action is warranted,' says Shilling, who is also a research scientist with the UC Davis department of environmental science and policy.