How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate

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https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/california-post-wildlife-crossing-22094232.php

How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate
The giant bridge over US 101 in Agoura Hills should be complete later this year

Last week, the newly launched California Post ran an opinion piece headlined “California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M.” The authors, both with the conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, dedicated roughly 750 words to attacking the Agoura Hills wildlife crossing northwest of Los Angeles for two key reasons: Costs are higher, and the completion date is later than initially estimated when the project was first announced five years ago.

None of this was new information, and all of it had previously been reported by various local, state and national news outlets over the past few years. But the opinion piece added sharp new language to describe an inflation-fueled price increase and one-year timeline extension, calling the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (the largest such crossing in the world) a “jobs program for environmentalists,” a “patronage program” and a “multimillion-dollar bridge to nowhere.”

And crucially, it also left out key details about the project’s updated timeline and price increase.


Within 24 hours, the wildlife crossing — the result of a yearslong, bipartisan effort to protect endangered mountain lions and restore habitat connectivity in California — had become a flash point in America’s ongoing political and cultural divide, fomenting online rage across social media.

[Walleye]

1. Well, it's not like they really take good care of our money.

They’re attitude is, screw the wildlife we need missiles to blow stuff up