A bear was killed Thursday evening while crossing the 5 Freeway near Castaic, the second such fatality in the area in a week, according to authorities. Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2023 The black bear was struck by multiple vehicles around 10:30 p.m. on the Read more…
Beloved mountain lion euthanized due to severe injuries Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2023 The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California’s threatened pumas, Read more…
As mountain lions seek to avoid wildfire zones, their risks of being hit by automobiles or entering deadly conflicts with other pumas are increasing. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2022 Conservationists have long warned that Southern California mountain lions could vanish within decades due to Read more…
2-year old lion part of baby boom Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 29, 2022 A mountain lion known by researchers to be born during the Santa Monica Mountains’ famed “Summer of Kittens” two years ago died on the 101 Freeway the morning of July 18. The Read more…
P-54 was struck around 9:30 a.m. in the Santa Monica Mountains. Her mother was killed in 2018, and one of her sons was killed just two months ago. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2022. A mountain lion was struck and killed by a vehicle Friday Read more…
On Friday, Earth Day, hundreds of conservationists and legislators gathered with joy and a sense of triumph on a weedy hill overlooking the Liberty Canyon Road exit to break ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2022 Chalk one up Read more…
In an epic search for territory and mates, the gray wolf from Oregon had ventured hundreds of miles to the very edge of Southern California’s crowded suburbs. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2021. Wolf advocates across the nation were brooding over the bad news this Read more…
The Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing reached a new milestone in funding. Source of this article, The Thousand Oaks Acorn, Feb 4, 2021 A private party recently donated $1.4 million toward construction of the land bridge over the l01 Freeway at Liberty Canyon in Agoura Hills. The donation raises total funding Read more…
It will take ’10 to 20 years’ before Santa Monica Mountains look like they did before Woolsey fire Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2018 Two dozen biologists with binoculars and telemetry equipment fanned out across the smoldering gulches and slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains Read more…
Source of this article: The Researchers recently documented a rare case of a cougar from the Santa Monica Mountains successfully crossing U.S. Highway 101 and moving into a range less hemmed in by Southern California sprawl, the National Park Service said Monday. The subadult male, dubbed P-55, crossed the 101 Read more…