The National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars Campaign, Big Cat Voices, ARC Solutions, and The Wildlife Crossing Fund are officially on the road again for stage two of the Wildlife Crossings Across America tour – a series of road trips that will explore and generate awareness for the need to build more wildlife crossings and connectivity projects in California, across the United States, and beyond.
Stage two of the road trip will focus on California, cover almost 2,000 miles, and feature over two dozen stops across the state. It all began today, August 19th, at the California and Nevada border with a visit to a proposed wildlife crossing along Highway 395 near Honey Lake. Everyone is invited to follow the team and learn about each connectivity project on the route by visiting the dedicated website at WildlifeCrossingFund.org/RoadTrip.
Central to the goal of the trip is the official launch of California Wildlife Reconnected. The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, which broke ground on Earth Day in 2022, has proven the transformative power of public-private partnerships in bringing connectivity infrastructure projects to fruition. California Wildlife Reconnected, a partnership originated by Governor Gavin Newsom, the California Natural Resources Agency, Caltrans, The Wildlife Crossing Fund, and the National Wildlife Federation, seeks to scale this successful collaborative model to build more wildlife crossings and improve wildlife movement across the state.
