Since the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County completed work on its wildlife tunnel at Laurel Curve in January, numerous animals have been spotted traveling under the roadway in the Santa Cruz Mountain…
A mountain lion walks through the wildlife tunnel under Highway 17 near Laurel Curve in this footage captured by Pathways for Wildlife and uploaded to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County’s YouTube page. The mountain lion is the first documented to use the tunnel installed by the Land Trust to allow wildlife to safely cross from one side of Highway 17 to the other.
“We had good reason to believe that it would work, and this actually is the proof that it did work,” she said. “Our spirit of innovation is rewarded, the vision of the Land Trust and its partners is now a reality for this area.” “The site at Laurel Curve, at the time of the initiation of the wildlife tunnel project, had recorded three collisions between vehicles and mountain lions, and there was a fourth during the planning stages,” she said.
In 2014, the Land Trust acquired a 10-acre property off Laurel Road plus 790 additional acres over time to control both sides of the highway. The project would then be funded through the passage of Measure D in 2016 as well as financial support from the California Department of Transportation, state Sen. John Laird and then-Assemblyman Mark Stone.
Pumas have also ventured into neighborhoods in forest-dense areas such as Bonny Doon and Felton and have even been spotted in Aptos. Occasionally, Wilmers said they have been spotted in downtown Santa Cruz, but this has been rare.
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