The corridor is home to many valuable environmental resources, including Parks and Open Space, the Poudre River floodplain and riparian habitat, wetlands, wildlife habitat for many different species, plus historic resources, to name a few.

The project study team included environmental specialists who inventoried all the resources in the study area and worked with the designers to help protect those resources to the maximum extent possible.

The development and consideration of alternatives was conducted with a context-sensitive approach, in which potential alternatives were designed in an interactive process which attempted to avoid or minimize impacts to resources by balancing transportation needs with potential effects on the environment.