Corridor AnalysisThe United States is focused on economic development, more specifically on wealth creation. It is understandable that wealth creation is of great importance, but continued economic development has led to degradation of our environment. This is why we currently need sustainable economic development combined with responsible protection of the environment and resources. As development accelerates, natural connections within the landscape continue to be fragmented and remaining natural habitats become isolated. We therefore need strategies to combat the consequences of fragmentation. One of these strategies is to create a network of corridors. Corridors are narrow, linear strips of habitat that have value for wildlife. In “New Initiatives for Wildlife Conservation,” Larry Harris and Peter Gallagher (1989) state: “Our refusal to incorporate movement across human-dominated landscapes into our conservation strategies has made luck the primary factor. prerequisite for survival in highly populated areas. Corridors provide ecological and environmental quality values. On the one hand, they help maintain biological diversity. The fragmentation of landscapes into distinct patches and the restriction of wildlife increase the risks of displacement and can also have serious consequences for the conservation of biological diversity. Conservation of biological diversity is extremely important because it can reduce the risk of a species becoming extinct or extinct. Corridors help maintain biological diversity by preserving migration corridors and connecting fragmented centers of plants and organisms. Harris and Gallagher conclude that "habitat connectivity declines with human modification of the landscape and the use of corridors is an attempt to maintain or restore some of the connectivity of the natural landscape." As a result, a network of corridors can improve landscape and habitat fragmentation. Corridors can serve as habitats in their own right, and they can also serve as links for animals migrating from one patch to another. There are many different types of landscapes that can function as corridors. A stream corridor is perhaps the best place to create a system of interconnected corridors. The interface between land and water represents some of the richest wildlife habitats.