Hills For Everyone’s January e-newsletter spotlights: two upcoming decisions, a recently funded acquisition, the return of Glenn Parker to our board, and the loss of Cliff the mountain lion. Read the e-newsletter.
Some good advice from our friends at the Mountain Lion Foundation.
The groundbreaking of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing was celebrated by Governor Gavin Newsom and many other elected leaders this spring. California needs to add more crossings if we’re to truly address habitat fragmentation. Support for the Safe Roads and Wildlife Protection Act, or A.B. 2344, will go a long way toward implementing more wildlife crossings on our roads and freeways.
We are pleased to see M317 continue to look for a safe place to call home. Let’s hope he isn’t struck by a car anytime soon and is (in time) able to find a mate! Cougars like him are the reason Hills For Everyone focused on saving Coal Canyon Wildlife Crossing under the 91 Freeway. View the Orange County Register article.
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of the five year old mountain lion dubbed “Scar” and “El Cobre.” There are less than two dozen cougars left in the Santa Ana Mountains. Scar was illegally shot and his body was not found where the shooting occurred–meaning he was mortally wounded and walked off to his death. His radio collar signaled the “mortality alert” with his lack of movement over an eight hour period. The SoCal subspecies of mountain … Read More