New California nature preserve to give wildlife more room to roam

on January 12, 2022

A rare cold storm covers the pine trees atop Bear Mountain in a coat of white in the Tehachapi Mountain in Calif., on April 27, 2021. The Randall Preserve covers more than 112 square miles (290 square km), connecting a patchwork of ranchland across the southern Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi Mountains, the Nature Conservancy announced late December 2021. The preserve is the largest ever assembled in California by the environmental nonprofit. Its topography stretches from hilly grasslands to pine forest with elevation ranges from 800 to nearly 8,000 feet. (Tyler Schiffman/Nature Conservancy via AP)

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Mountain lions, eagles, salamanders, and other protected animals will have room to roam without the threat of encroaching development thanks to a vast new nature preserve that creates a wildlife corridor connecting Northern and Southern California. The Randall Preserve covers more than 112 square miles (290 square km), linking a patchwork of ranchland across the southern Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi Mountains that will serve as a “biodiversity hotspot,” the Nature Conservancy announced last week.

New California nature preserve to give wildlife more room to roam

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