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An uncollared mountain lion lives in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife (CLAW) has release 
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A proposal intended to protect the passage of wildlife so they can find food, shelter and mates has been narrowly approved.
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Land Trust Deal Will Preserve Nearly 1800 Acres Of Prime Ranchland On Central Coast From Development
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One of the most scenic ranches on the Central Coast, a place with sweeping panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean, has now been protected from development
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For only the second time in 16 years, a mountain lion has been recorded crossing the 101 Freeway south into the Santa Monica Mountains, National Park Service officials said Tuesday.
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See other data visualization circulating through social media outlets (see the article from City Lab, Atlas Obscura or an urban planning program). New maps use math to define the amorphous term.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Another example is the long line of defining the new geography.
Boris Limpopo's curator insight,
December 11, 2016 1:43 AM
Le macroregioni americane con i dati del pendolarismo
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L.A. lawmakers voted for a ¿wildlife corridor¿ in the Santa Monicas, aiming to ensure that wild animals are not cut off from their habitat by development.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We created such a policy here in Ventura County about a decade ago and it has worked well. I hope this moderate proposal for a subsection of the Santa Monica Mountains is successful. If so, it will help maintain the now-limited connectivity at the edges of one of the most populous cities in North America.
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With the Griffith Park mountain lion as their poster puma, the National Wildlife Federation and the Santa Monica Mountains Fund have joined forces to raise money for a wildlife crossing at the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills.
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From an urban puma's perspective, the news of late from greater Los Angeles has been mixed.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The drumbeat for a crossing over the death trap of an animal killer-the 101 Freeway-is heating up. This particular crossing at Liberty Canyon is a natural place to put it. But we really need more than one to stave off the worst effect of habitat fragmentation.
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A quiet Glendale neighborhood was rocked by the appearance of a large male mountain lion. Juan Fernandez reports. Via clare wormald
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The recent death of the 405 Freeway is a sad illustration of how treacherous the L.A. landscape can be for mountain lions.
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Two wildlife crossings could give the species a long-term chance at survival in Southern California, a study suggests.
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Liberty Canyon Crossing another step closer to completion.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The California Department of Transportation gave approval Tuesday for a plan to build a $60-million wildlife freeway crossing in Agoura Hills.
The unpaved bridge across the 101 Freeway at Liberty Canyon will feature a natural landscape design to encourage mountain lions, bobcats and other wildlife to safely cross the highway and expand their habitat from the Simi Hills in the north to the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean in the south. Caltrans expects the design phase to be completed in two years, followed by construction possibly starting in late 2020, depending on funding availability.
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Senator Fran Pavley joined state conservation officials and community activists in Agoura Hills on Friday to celebrate a decision by the Wildlife Conservation Board to purchase Chesebro Meadow, a critical property north of Highway 101 in the Liberty Canyon wildlife corridor.
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The Los Angeles Zoo is taking steps to protect its animals from a mountain lion suspected of killing a koala last week.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A great solution: don't penalize the predator for being a predator. Change the vulnerability you created with your exotic and oh-so tempting food out there in the open.
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But a simple bridge over the freeway could help save the charismatic big cats
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The push for a wildlife crossing is growing.
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The above photo shows some of the first motorists to cross the new bridge atop the Sepulveda Pass this morning. The old bridge was demolished during Carmageddon I & II and the new bridge built ...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
You don't want to know the price or person hours it took to replace this "Carmageddon"-inducing crossing spanning one of California's most heavily travelled coastal highways. But it is done and (amongst other assets) is now an improved wildlife crossing for animals to traverse this deathrap of a road. Nothing as grand as what our friends in Canada or Croatia have built, but in urbanizing Los Angeles, we will take whatever we can get!
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A Texas developer and a group of California scientists are feuding over the amount of environmental damage a gated community would bring to one of the last remaining parcels of prime wildlife habitat in the southern Santa Susana Mountains.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While not all development projects in our coastal foothills are particulalry problematic, this one is horrible. It is proposed on a landslide area, would bury two blue line streas, actually increase fire risk, need a new nearly mile-long road just to get to the property, and pull development into an important wildlife corridor bringing large vertebrates from our more inland mountain ranges into our coastal moutnains. The preliminary findings that this development would amount to no significant impact to the area is a joke.
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