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Project to build the world's largest wildlife crossing in the Conejo Valley gets another big donation

An area view of Highway 101 in the Agoura Hills area, with an artist's conception of what a 165-footwide wildlife crossing would look like.
Living Habitats/National Wildlife Federation
An area view of Highway 101 in the Agoura Hills area, with an artist's conception of what a 165-footwide wildlife crossing would look like.

The 200 foot long, 165 foot wide crossing will span ten lanes of Highway 101 in the Agoura Hills area.

A project to build a groundbreaking freeway crossing to help mountain lions, and other wildlife safely cross Highway 101 in the Conejo Valley received another big donation.

Aerospace giant Boeing donated $1 million towards building what’s been named the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing near Liberty Canyon, in the Agoura Hills area.

Boosters say they now have commitments for about $80 million of what expected to be around a $90 million project. Work could start this year on the 165-foot wide crossing, which will span ten lanes of freeway.

The crossing will be landscaped with soil and native plants, providing a passageway for mountain lions and other wildlife which currently have their habitat split by the freeway. It will be the largest crossing of its type in the world.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.