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    Animal crossing: world’s biggest wildlife bridge comes to California highway | Wildlife

    Imagine cruising down a 10-lane highway and knowing that, high above your head, a mountain lion is quietly going along its way. This remarkable image could soon be reality for drivers on one of California’s busiest roads, as the world’s largest wildlife overpass begins construction this month. The history-making project will comprise a green bridge built across the 101 highway near Los Angeles, creating a corridor between two parts of the Santa Monica mountains. Stretching 210ft long and 165ft wide, the overpass will allow safe passage for lizards, snakes, toads and mountain lions, with an acre of local plants on either side and vegetated sound walls to dampen light and…

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    Touring Sedona: Cathedral Rock, Devil’s Bridge, Pink Jeeps, vortexes and more

    SEDONA, Arizona – The sky was cerulean blue, the rock sienna red. My face was pretty red too, having just climbed 700 feet nearly straight up. But my, oh my, what a view. This particular view was atop Cathedral Rock, a stunning sandstone formation filled with spires and towers just south of Sedona. But there were views just like this all around – atop Chicken Point, Submarine Rock and Devil’s Bridge, among other locations. And those are just the ones I had time for, during a too-quick, two-day visit last month. There’s a reason that tourism to Sedona has exploded in recent years. The place is drop-dead gorgeous. The best…

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    Sonoma County’s Knights Bridge Winery production facility reflects sustainability commitment

    Design of a new manufacturing constructing on the grounds of the Knights Bridge Winery positioned at 17134 Spencer Lane near Calistoga began in January 2020 is the latest in a collection of enlargement jobs that in the beginning bundled a hospitality middle, wine caves and a barn. The 14,000-sq.-foot Sonoma County facility opened Nov. 5, ready to make an approximated collective full of 10,000 situations of cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon blanc and chardonnay per 12 months. Found on the west facet of the Knights Valley appellation, the vintner’s assets has a practically 100-acre winery nestled near the base of Mt. St. Helena, at an elevation from 300 to 900 ft. This…

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