Gladwyn d’Souza#CarCrashes, the #fossilfuel toll, on people animals insects and butterflies: About 70 #mountainlions are fatally struck on #California’s 15,000 miles of #highway each year — and the deadliest stretch of all for the #protectedspecies is Interstate 280 running through the Peninsula, according to a new study from UC Davis researchers. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/mountain-lion-highway-california-17770742.php
280 from San Bruno to Cupertino is exclusive, wealthy, devoid of black and indigenous residents, and where the earliest species on the #EndangeredSpecies List, the checkerspot #butterfly, was extirpated by the nitrogen deposition from #fossilfueled cars on serpentine soils, causing invasive grasses to blot out the sun for the caterpillars host plant. Today to protect the wealth CalFire has destroyed #habitat in this stretch for 100s of #rareplants and species including the western blue bird.