Opinion: If we keep letting mountain lions die in L.A. traffic, there soon won't be any left (via latimesopinion)
Los Angeles can be treacherous for mountain lions. Poisons, wildfires and endless streams of traffic all make navigating the urban landscape to seek out what remains of the wild a difficult task. And dealing with both may have gotten P-61 killed. The mountain lion, collared and enrolled in the longtime National Park Service study of the pumas, may have encountered an uncollared mountain lion, believed to be roaming in the hills east of the 405. Pumas are brutally territorial.
It’s a sad reminder that, if we value the presence of these wild animals in our midst, we have to work harder to make it easier for them to survive. The California Legislature just squandered a great opportunity to protect mountain lions bythat would have banned second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides. Mountain lions that eat animals killed by the rat poison end up sick or dead themselves. It’s ridiculous that legislators caved to the pesticide industry on this.
If we don’t want them to die on roads and freeways, we need to create more wildlife corridors. It’s great that the California Department of Transportation is using mostly private funds to build an $87-million, state-of-the-art wildlife bridge across the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills. But there should be some safe route across the 405 as well. There is some fencing along that freeway now to discourage a giant leap by a puma onto the freeway, but the fence needs to be taller.
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