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===== California gardeners plant native species in parks to prevent wildfire spread – in pictures =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/may/26/california-plants-garden-wildfires by Philip Cheung 26/5/25 The Guardian]
Test Plot, a project launched in 2019 by the landscape architecture firm Terremoto, has built eight plots in Elysian Park alone.On a recent Friday morning, volunteers were pulling out invasive grass and black mustard to make room for wildflowers and other drought-resistant, native species.
===== Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing by Katharine Gammon 6/4/25 The Guardian]
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.
===== Native Plants are Flammable Too =====
[https://sfforest.org/2019/01/05/native-plants-are-flammable-too/ by SF Forest Alliance 5/1/19 San Francisco Forest Alliance]
Three of the most flammable plants in California landscapes are bay laurels, coyote brush, and chamise – all native. An evenhanded presentation of fire hazard ratings for all plants that does not downplay the danger of native plants or exaggerate the danger of non-native plants would better serve people working to address fire hazards.
===== Proposed “American Perimeter Trail” Would Circumnavigate Entire Contiguous United States (14,000 Miles) =====
[https://unofficialnetworks.com/2025/07/09/proposed-american-perimeter-trail-would-circumnavigate-entire-contiguous-united-states-14000-miles/ by Francis Xavier 10/7/25 UNOFFICIAL NETWORKS]
The American Perimeter Trail would connect a network of existing, new and proposed trails. Rue McKenrick has already made the trek and it took him 3-years to complete. Rue McKenrick is dead set on making the new trail a reality and it is still very much in preliminary stages but the ground work has been laid.
===== ‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing by Katharine Gammon 6/4/25 The Guardian]
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.
===== California shores up beaver protection in nod to their ‘ecological benefit’ =====
[https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php?title=News_Gallery&action=edit by Guardian staff and agencies 26/7/23 The Guardian]
California is embracing beavers and the role they play in the ecosystem after years of viewing the animals as a nuisance for chewing down trees and blocking up streams.
===== ‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing by Katharine Gammon 6/4/25 The Guardian]
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.
===== California shores up beaver protection in nod to their ‘ecological benefit’ =====
[https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php?title=News_Gallery&action=edit by Guardian staff and agencies 26/7/23 The Guardian]
California is embracing beavers and the role they play in the ecosystem after years of viewing the animals as a nuisance for chewing down trees and blocking up streams.
===== In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River =====
[https://grist.org/indigenous/in-californias-largest-landback-deal-the-yurok-tribe-reclaims-sacred-land-around-the-klamath-river/ by Anita Hofschneider 5/6/25 Grist]
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.
===== When Wind Turbines Become Underwater Forests: America's Accidental Marine Revolution =====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/30/2330713/-When-Wind-Turbines-Become-Underwater-Forests-America-s-Accidental-Marine-Revolution?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Chris Buxton 30/6/25 DAILY KOS]
Captain Hank Hewitt moved to Block Island for the fishing, not the renewable energy. When America's first offshore wind farm was still being discussed, he wasn't sure how five 600-foot turbines would affect the fish he'd been chasing since he was five years old. Then the turbines went up in 2016, and Hewitt discovered something unexpected: paradise.
===== Biden creates a new national monument near the Grand Canyon =====
[https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192622716/biden-national-monument-grand-canyon-arizona by Tamara Keith 8/8/23 npr]
President Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres.
===== Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests? =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/may/01/fewer-wildfires-great-biodiversity-what-is-the-secret-to-the-success-of-mexicos-forests by Linda Farthing 1/5/24 The Guardian]
Dexter Melchor Matías works in the Zapotec Indigenous town of Ixtlán de Juárez, about 1,600ft (490 metres) above the wide Oaxaca valley in Mexico, where community forestry has become a way of life. Like him, about 10 million people across the country live in and make a living from forests, with half of that population identifying as Indigenous.
===== Nairobi’s lions are almost encircled by the city. A Maasai community offers a key corridor out =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/lions-kenya-wildlife-conservation-migration-community-land-predators-maasai-farmers-nairobi-national-park by Peter Muiruri 25/6/25 The Guardian]
Nairobi national park in Kenya is the only large wildlife conservation area to fall within a capital city. It is hemmed in on three sides by human development, and unfenced only on its southern boundary – this gap providing a crucial wildlife passageway, linking the park’s animals to other populations of wildlife and wider gene pools.
===== There is a lake in Tanzania that looks like it’s from another planet: it kills everything it touches, except these animals =====
[https://en.as.com/latest_news/there-is-a-lake-in-tanzania-that-looks-like-its-from-another-planet-it-kills-everything-it-touches-except-these-animals-n-2/ by Joe Brenna 18/6/25 as]
On the border of Kenya and Tanzania lies Lake Natron—a body of water 58 square miles wide but only about 9 feet deep. It might sound like the perfect spot for a family outing.
===== The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn Klamath =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/klamath-river-trip-dam-removal by Gabrielle Cannon 7/6/25 The Guardian]
Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US history. Forged through the footprint of reservoirs that kept parts of the Klamath submerged for more than a century, the river that straddles the California-Oregon border has since been reborn.


===== In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River =====
===== In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River =====
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