LOS ANGELES — State investigators repeatedly identified fire and safety hazards at a leased storage space under an elevated Los Angeles freeway before it burned in an arson fire last weekend, documents show. The state’s most recent spot inspection — which occurred a little over a month before the Nov. 11 fire — found “numerous lease violations,” but the documents …
How do you create a convincing span of nature over one of the state’s busiest freeway corridors so that wildlife like L.A.’s famous, ill-fated cougar, P-22, can cross unscathed? Purple owl’s clover, a native plant growing on the hill near the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing development. “To have a self-sustaining landscape, we have to re-create the mycorrhizal fungi in the …
National Park Service biologist Jeff Sikich uses radio telemetry to listen for any nearby mountain lions. Mountain lions were so eager to avoid the 100,000-acre burn zone that they chose instead to cross busy roadways within the Santa Monica Mountains or enter the hunting grounds of other adult pumas. A new study determined that mountain lions avoided 100,000 acres of …
