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Tevai
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Date: November 26, 2020 11:32PM
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/as-socal-plans-101-fwy-bridge-to-help-mountain-lions-video-shows-overpass-for-wildlife-working-in-utah/This is of great interest in California (particularly southern California, I think) because our mountain lion population is in increasing danger due to long-term inbreeding, which began when the freeways were constructed and opened decades ago.
We urgently need to get "new"--or, at the very least, more biologically "distant"--genes into our local wildlife population--but up to now, the freeways have been fairly impassible "barriers." A few animals make it across the freeways safely, but most are either too scared to try, or they are killed on their way across.
For us in southern California, Utah's success in creating "a path in the sky," OVER the freeways, is wonderful news. (The animals, as they are making the crossing, are not aware they are "up high," since their vision field is obscured by local bushes and trees, carefully "masking" their view, and what is under their feet appears to be just their normal soil and small rocks.)
We in California need to get those bridges built!
Many props to Utah for your success!