'Even a freeway is redeemable': world's largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles

[hunter]

Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.

“This is the soul of the project,” says Beth Pratt, the regional executive director, California, at the National Wildlife Federation, who has worked on making the crossing become a reality over the last 13 years. She says she’s seen many milestones, like the 26m pounds of concrete poured to create the structure, but this one is special.

“To be able to put my hand in that soil and toss it on and know that we’ll be putting milkweed plants that will flourish for monarch butterflies, or picturing the first mountain lion paw print on that soil,” she says, fills her with hope. “It is wonderful to watch this habitat take shape.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing

This is a beautiful project, the article includes photos.

[PufPuf23]

1. Looks like a monument to human vanity. Money

and expertise that could be spent more effectively to conserve the natural world of California.

Not criticizing you Hunter, just sad.

The project will do some good and raise awareness.

https://annenberg.org/initiatives/wallis-annenberg-wildlife-crossing/

[hunter]

2. In a perfect world we'd abandon our automobile culture and remove the freeway.

We don't live in a perfect world.