MISSING LINKAGES: RESTORING CONNECTIVITY TO THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE
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Wildlife is
on the ropes in the Golden State.
From the forested mountains and grasslands of California's northwest to the
sand dunes, chaparral, and deserts of the southeast, habitat corridors--areas
linking the places where wild things live--are being destroyed at a terrible
rate.
Scientists believe that without migration corridors allowing animals to move
between protected areas and other public lands, Californians risk losing some
of the most important and charismatic species found in the state--mountain lions,
bobcats, badgers, salmon and steelhead, to name a few.
Now, the first step in saving those threatened wildlife corridors--identifying
exactly where they are-has been completed, in the form of a 79-page report,
Missing Linkages: Restoring Connectivity to the California Landscape. The entire
report, including detailed color maps of California's nine ecoregions, is available
on this website. For the text, tables, bar graphs and pie charts, click on Table
of Contents. For the maps, click on Figures and Maps.
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