🌿 Environment 5h ago · Katharine Gammon in Los Angeles

California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line

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California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line
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Unhindered by critics who called the $114m project ‘a bridge to nowhere’, a gigantic throughway allowing animals to cross a busy freeway is close to completionAtop a gigantic wildlife bridge in California this week, butterflies filled the air. A red-tailed hawk sailed above as a slight breeze ruffled the 6,000 native plants, including poppies and purple sage. You’d never guess that below the quiet expanse of rocks and plants, a 10-lane freeway ferries 400,000 cars each day.When the project broke

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