Abstract
Rise in traffic accidents, caused by population explosion of ezodeer, becomes major concerns on road maintenance in the eastern part of Hokkaido. A lot of attention to build symbiosis with wildlife is required as in road maintenance and construction of new road in order to follow a change of social situation in recent years.
This study is conducted to monitor some cross road facilities for ezodeer and to observe ecological influence on ezodeer of road construction. It is ascertained that ezodeer trails on a road bank are hardly updated but those on a road cutting are frequently updated. Ezodeers are reluctant to use wildlife underpass. Wildlife overbridge has been used by a handful of ezodeers on the other hand. It is important to consider the nature of ezodeer as mentioned above at planning ecoroad.
