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We talked before about the cougars in Santa Monica and they're surrounded by roads and trapped by this island habitat. But there's a solution there that people are working on. 
Yeah, so that population of mountain lions in California, they're going to benefit from what is going to be the largest wildlife overpass in North America. This gigantic structure that's under construction right now should be completed by the end of 2025 that's going to cross the 101, you know, this incredibly busy freeway, and basically mountain lions in the Santa Monica's to move back and forth across the highway and meet up with cats from other parts of the state, and you know ideally that kind of infusion of fresh blood and new genetic material will kind of refresh the gene pool and allow these inbred cats to avoid extinction. 
What is it, can you describe what that's going to look like? I've not tracked that story at all. I've not seen images of that highway overpass, and what sort of what sort of size are you talking about? 
Yeah, it's really massive. It's, you know, a couple hundred feet wide, and they're really rebuilding the whole sort of area because, you know, they're kind of creating new slopes that sort of funnel animals towards the crossing. project footprint I think is about nine acres. 
So you know some people hear the phrase you know wildlife overpass and wildlife bridge and think of like a little skinny catwalk but you know this this project is really you know as one of its designers described it you know it's kind of architecturally solid terrain that cars must pass through you know it's this giant piece of landscape that's going to have shrubs and trees and rocks and boulders and you know all kinds of habitat features because you know it's not just the mountain lions who have to use this thing it's also the deer and the bobcats and the you know the songbirds who are in many cases reluctant to fly over ten lanes of traffic it's the you know it's the lizards and the the ants they're gonna about, you know, creating ant habitat atop this crossing, right, really trying to make it an ecosystem as much as possible.
And, you know, the other kind of important consideration there too, right, is that, you know, look, this freeway, you know, the 101, it's so busy that there's so much noise and light pollution that would scare animals away from even approaching the overpass potentially. So they're also adding. you know, vegetated screens and berms and rock walls and other features that are designed to block all of this sensory pollution that would deter animals. So it's really, you know, they're really designing a new ecosystem from scratch that's going to span the highway. It's pretty exciting, and kind of recreating that over the top of a highway. It's just fascinating.