Featured News, Press Coverage, Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing was always going to be a bold experiment—an attempt to stitch back together a landscape long severed by the Ventura (101) Freeway. Now, as the project progresses, it has also become something else: a flashpoint. Critics have seized on rising costs and shifting timelines. Originally pegged at roughly $90 million…
2 Apr 2026
Press Coverage, Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
As supporters of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills gear up for an Earth Day celebration atop the bridge over the 101 Freeway on April 22—exactly four years since the official groundbreaking—the project has come under fire for delays and cost overruns. Some of the crossing’s backers say the surge of criticism online…
All Updates, Press Coverage, Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
The giant bridge over US 101 in Agoura Hills should be complete later this year Last week, the newly launched California Post ran an opinion piece headlined “California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M.” The authors, both with the conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, dedicated roughly 750 words to attacking the Agoura…
All Updates, Crossings and Connectivity Projects, Press Coverage, Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
In 2024, the nonprofit National Wildfire Federation began its plan to build a bridge over the 101 freeway in Agoura Hills to help mountain lions and other wildlife facing “genetic isolation” caused by the freeway. The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is expected to be finished this year, but already small creatures are making the bridge their home…
19 Mar 2026
All Updates, Crossings and Connectivity Projects, Featured News
“She never left her cub,” said a Yosemite National Park ranger, heartbroken, after she witnessed a mother bear remain for hours with her lifeless baby who had been hit by a car on a park road in the summer of 2021. adly, dozens of bears are hit, and sometimes killed, on park roads each year. Vehicle strikes…
10 Mar 2026
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For a mountain lion, the kindest intervention for a broken leg is often euthanasia. But the cub known as P-121 was getting a second chance. Found in a roadside ditch in the Simi Valley near Los Angeles, he was one of scores of California mountain lions struck by vehicles each year. At only about five…
17 Feb 2026
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