The largest wildlife crossing of its type is underway in California, and it’s lastly beginning to appear like an overpass. The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills has been many years within the making, and crews broke floor on the construction in 2022. Final week, although, the primary girder (horizontal help beam) went in, which means for the primary time, there’s one thing for individuals on the 101 freeway to drive underneath.
There can be 82 girders whole, crossing 10 lanes of the 101 freeway—a course of that may take as much as 45 days. Nightly freeway closures will give crews time to work.
Agoura Hills is a metropolis within the Santa Monica Mountains area of Los Angeles County. The 101 freeway cuts off the Santa Monica Mountains from the remainder of the area, isolating wildlife that don’t dare to cross the busy freeway, and killing many animals that do try a crossing.
Specifically, wildlife advocates say this 210-foot crossing can be instrumental in uniting two presently remoted populations of mountain lions. By offering an overpass, advocates say mountain lions on both facet of the freeway will be capable of intermingle like nature meant.
Different wildlife overpasses across the nation have proved wildly profitable, and wildlife cameras usually seize animals not solely safely crossing roads but in addition simply going about their enterprise. That is precisely the aim with the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, which can wrap up by 2025 or early 2026.
For an in depth take a look at the development mission (filmed earlier than the primary girder went in), watch this replace from the #SaveLACougars Marketing campaign:
Would you help closures for cougars in your space, even when it meant taking a freeway detour?
