Interstate Content / Interstate Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en What Roadkill Is Costing California /news/what-roadkill-costing-california <p>Collisions between vehicles and wildlife cost California $276 million in 2016, up about 20 percent from the previous year, according to an annual <a href="http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/news/2017/09/71506">report from the ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Road Ecology Center</a>.</p> <p>Using state data on over 13,000 traffic incidents during 2015 and 2016, the report maps stretches of California highways that are hotspots for wildlife-vehicle conflicts.</p> September 07, 2017 - 4:47pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/what-roadkill-costing-california Southern California Mountain Lions’ Genetic Connectivity Dangerously Low /news/southern-california-mountain-lions-genetic-connectivity-dangerously-low <p>If a dangerously inbred puma population in Southern California is to survive in the future, an urgent need for genetic connectivity must be met, according to two scientific papers from a team of researchers coordinated by the University of California, Davis, and involving scientists at the University of Wyoming and the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.</p> June 14, 2017 - 11:00am Katherine E Kerlin /news/southern-california-mountain-lions-genetic-connectivity-dangerously-low