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(Courtesy National Wildlife Federation)
The effort to build a massive wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway just hit a big milestone. An anonymous $1.4 million donation pushed the project over the $18 million mark (the final cost is estimated at $87 million).
The planned bridge will span 10 lanes of the freeway at Liberty Canyon and provide a safe pathway for endangered mountain lions and other wildlife that live in the Santa Monica Mountains to cross busy lanes of traffic without getting hit by cars.
(Courtesy National Wildlife Federation)
Beth Pratt, California Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation, says this latest donation means they ve hit the homestretch:
It’s a question of days for some of us.
Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, marked 536 days since the El Paso massacre, when a gunman drove more than 650 miles to kill Mexicans. It was 1,683 days after the Pulse nightclub killings. And exactly 2,045 days after Donald Trump launched his campaign for the White House by lambasting Mexico for not sending its “best” people to the United States.
These dates are linked, chronologically and arguably in causation, in the recent cultural history of Latinos in the United States. Their theme is opposition to our existence and, in its worst iteration, eliminating us.
Inauguration Day offered a break in that grim count, with symbolic gestures of Latino visibility at the swearing-in ceremony for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Jennifer Lopez recited the final line of the Pledge of Allegiance in jubilant Spanish. And Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court’s first Latina, swore in Harris the nation’s first
Environment
Updated
Published
(Courtesy National Wildlife Federation)
The effort to build a massive wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway just hit a big milestone. An anonymous $1.4 million donation pushed the project over the $18 million mark (the final cost is estimated at $87 million).
The planned bridge will span 10 lanes of the freeway at Liberty Canyon and provide a safe pathway for endangered mountain lions and other wildlife that live in the Santa Monica Mountains to cross busy lanes of traffic without getting hit by cars.
(Courtesy National Wildlife Federation)
Beth Pratt, California Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation, says this latest donation means they ve hit the homestretch:
The Best California Books of 2020
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These last several months, as we quarantined and went into shutdown mode, I found myself missing California in the most visceral sense. I know it’s there I can see it, right outside my window but I long for the moment when I will once again be able to move freely through it, to immerse myself in its breadth and depth. Perhaps that’s why I spent so much of 2020 reading literature from or about the state. For all the horrors of this year, it has been a great one for California writing. Here are 10 favorite books that have changed or expanded the ways I think about this place.