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By Jill ReploglePublished Aug 29, 2024 5:00 AMA birds-eye rendering of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction in Agoura Hills.(Courtesy Rock Design Associates and the National Wildlife Federation) Wildlife advocates finished a road trip across California this week to rally for more and better ways for animals to get safely across those roads. At a stop in Sacramento, state offic

From L-R: Beth Pratt, regional director of NWF; Meighan Dietenhofer boardmember of the Coastal Ranches Conservancy; Morgan Robertson with Caltrans District 5; Doug Campbell with Coastal Ranches Conservancy; and Candice Meneghin, executive director of Coastal Ranches Conservancy. Credit: Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices | Credit: ©2024 Steve WinterIt took a thousand grueling miles, and a lot of caffeine

A vision to provide safe passage for mountain lions above 10 lanes of whizzing traffic near Los Angeles faced a foe: time.Genetically isolated pumas hemmed in by the 101 Freeway were showing birth defects and needed an outlet fast.A massive philanthropic challenge grant allowed the $92-million Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing to advance rapidly and encouraged state investment — and the underlyin

The National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars Campaign, Big Cat Voices, ARC Solutions, and The Wildlife Crossing Fund are officially on the road again for stage two of the Wildlife Crossings Across America tour – a series of road trips that will explore and generate awareness for the need to build more wildlife crossings and connectivity projects in California, across the United States, and be