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    A cougar passage rises over a deadly Southern California freeway

    LOS ANGELES — Chalk one up for the cougars. When conservationists first announced plans to raise $30 million for a wildlife crossing over a deadly 10-lane stretch of the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, critics snickered and said "good luck." Now, 10 years later, the dream of building a bridge that would help mountain lions escape an "extinction vortex" by providing them safe passage to food and ...
    by Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times Apr 22, 2022 4 minutes
    The 101 Freeway confines larger animals on either side of it, preventing gene flow among them and thus endangering some species.

    LOS ANGELES — Chalk one up for the cougars.

    When conservationists first announced plans to raise $30 million for a wildlife crossing over a deadly 10-lane stretch of the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, critics snickered and said "good luck."

    Now, 10 years later, the dream of building a bridge that would help mountain lions escape an "extinction vortex" by providing them safe passage to food and mates is becoming a reality.

    On Friday, Earth Day, hundreds of conservationists and legislators will gather on a weedy hill overlooking the Liberty Canyon Road exit to break ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.

    , regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation. "For years to come, this wildlife crossing will be admired and studied as proof that

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