"A Duty to the Local Wildlife"

The Canyon News is now documenting the fight to save the Wildlife Corridor, as well as our duty and responsibility to respect all the creatures -- human and non-human -- that call Laurel Canyon home.  Unfortunately, the developers who come into the Canyon from elsewhere generally don't realize what's at stake:

It’s not unusual for developers to come into the hillsides trying to make a fast buck. They plunk down money without doing their homework.  They look at the land and focus exclusively on how to maximize the dollar return, without any consideration for other local interests. They’re speculators. In this instance, the community is fighting to have the buildings’ square footage give way to a Wildlife Corridor which has been in place for years. The community feels that city administrators should side with the SMMC Wildlife Corridor, which bisects the property. They claim that an interrupted corridor effectively extinguishes the value of the entire corridor.

For more press coverage, check out the articles from The LA Times and Curbed LA.