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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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A road runs through it: Looking for solutions for wildlife along Highway 191 between Bozeman, Big Sky | Environment
When wildlife researcher Patricia Cramer takes a bird’s-eye view of a landscape, she likes to imagine a black bear moving across it, navigating both natural and man-made features. Where might that bear find food and water? What paths might it follow to meet potential mates? Where would it tuck in for a nap, or den for the winter? The thought that follows is grimmer: “How in the world is that animal going to be able to do that tonight — or any night — and not get killed on the road?” Cramer, a self-described “queen of wildlife crossings,” has been studying the intersection of transportation and ecology for the better…
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Highway 62 art tours’ Wendy Gadzuk combines beauty and darkness
In artist Wendy Gadzuk’s Morongo Valley home, there is a harmony amongst religious and darkish symbolism. Images of Buddha and the Virgin Mary affiliate with her assemblages applying feathers, animal bones, dolls and steel gears. Gadzuk’s work is a relationship of splendor and darkness. Just one specific piece hanging in her kitchen area is a doll’s head created to glance like a demon in Hindu lifestyle, with the skull of a chicken at the leading of its crown. Huge blue feathers blow out of its body. The eyes, created of white and blue gems, aqua beading all-around the neck and what resembles a beak for a mouth, are fascinating and horrifying. Some of Gadzuk’s operate is…
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