“It was a little warm,” chided 5th District Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley on returning from a leisurely morning “walk and talk” under a blazing summer sun with about thirty-five or so residents, mainly from Laguna Beach, in late July.
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Critter, Human Co-Existence Boosted by Irvine-Laguna Wildlife Corridor Plan
Lance Vallery of Laguna Greenbelt pointing to a sandbar where homeless people have camped on the proposed wildlife trail. Photo by Rita Robinson
If the stars align and all the pieces fit, a native wild animal corridor will wend its way over six miles from the Santa Ana Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest to the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, hopefully sooner than later.
The idea is to get wild animals, such as bobcats and gray foxes, from the national forest in the east to intermingle with the locals in the west, broadening their mating range and stopping the deleterious effects of interbreeding.