The Santa Monica Mountains are home to around 450 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians that roam a range packed with native plant varieties. But cut off by the US 101 freeway, the mountains have become something of a genetic island. “It’s like old royalty,” jokes Beth Pratt, California regional executive director with the...
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...
“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...
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...
To the 300,000 drivers who stream through Agoura Hills on the 101 Freeway every day, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing looks relatively unchanged from last summer, except for some leggy native shrubs growing along the outer walls. While activity seems to have halted on what is touted to be the world’s largest wildlife crossing, there’s...
GLOBAL NEWS: (CNA reporter Lin Honghan, Los Angeles, 21st) The California government and private sector have joined forces to spend US$92 million (approximately NT$2.8 billion) to build the world’s largest animal ecological bridge in Los Angeles, spanning a 10-lane highway, in an effort to save the endangered cougar. In recent years, there have been frequent...
Native plants are being placed on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Tuesday, marking another milestone for what officials say will be the largest bridge of its kind in the world. Over the next few months, about 5,000 more plants are expected to be installed along the bridge — which stretches over all 10 lanes of...
Steve Winter P-22 was found roaming the Hollywood Hills, miles away from other mountain lions. Scientists fitted the puma with a radio collar which recorded his location (Credit: Steve Winter) Inspired by a mountain lion isolated from potential mates, the world’s largest wildlife bridge is being built in Los Angeles to allow animals to roam...
The second and final stage of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing begins in July with tasks far more challenging than the first phase. Part of this second phase involves building a tunnel along a 175-foot section of Agoura Road to connect the crossing to the Santa Monica Mountains, just west of Liberty Canyon Road. Details...
After nearly three years of construction, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing reached a critical milestone on Monday. The builders hope to start planting special native seeds this month, and then native plants that were grown from seeds collected nearby. The next and final phase of the project will include the temporary closure of Agoura Road...
