{"id":219477,"date":"2025-10-23T04:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219477\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:39:07","slug":"native-plants-take-root-in-next-phase-of-wildlife-crossing-construction-over-101-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219477\/","title":{"rendered":"Native plants take root in next phase of wildlife crossing construction over 101 Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 22, 2025 6:38PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Native plants take root on wildlife crossing over 101 Fwy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Crews have planted the seeds for a greener future on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">AGOURA HILLS, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; Crews have planted the seeds for a greener future over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Tuesday, they began installing nearly 5,000 native plants on what will be the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/agoura-hills-wildlife-crossing-101-freeway-takes-shape-completed-deck\/15144541\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing<\/a>. It&#8217;s part of a 1-acre habitat designed to reconnect wildlife separated by the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>Once finished, the overall crossing will be the largest bridge of its kind in the world, and a global model for urban wildlife conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The project uses seeds collected within five miles of the crossing to ensure the habitat mirrors the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains. Crews placed the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/crews-lay-first-layers-soil-wallis-annenberg-wildlife-crossing-101-freeway-agoura-hills\/16112045\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first layers of soil<\/a> over the surface of the crossing earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crossing, specifically designed to attract the maximum amount of species, will be the largest of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s set to be completed next fall.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, October 22, 2025 6:38PM Crews have planted the seeds for a greener future on the Wallis Annenberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[93830,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-219477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-93830","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}