Type: report

Article abstract: The title of this Project is “Santa Ana Mountains to eastern Peninsular Range Conservation Connectivity Infrastructure Planning Project for Interstate 15 and Closely Associated Roadways” (funded through this Agreement by the Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP) Local Assistance Grant (LAG) Program) and is conducted coincident with the Project titled “Mountain Lion Linkage Assessment along SR’s 76,78, and 79, and testing of Hazing Devices in Western San Diego County (funded by the San Diego County Association of Governments), and The Nature Conservancy (Conservancy). In-kind support is being provided by San Diego State University’s Santa Margarita River Ecological Reserve (SMER), the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority (RCA), and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The lead entity on the project is the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis (UCD-WHC), with collaborators from the California Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP) and the Conservancy. Mountain lion research has been conducted by researchers from the UCD-WHC in southern California since 2001.