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Once the passageway's built the animals will indeed come. And the difficulty of being wild in this world will be less for them, thanks to P-22. As I've walked along it's trail-like dirt road I’ve thought about how he never knew this beautiful spot, never got the chance to roam through these valleys, over creeks, to the other side of the Simi Hills and beyond. But - was that his spirit I felt? Does he know what he’s done? Can he wander wherever he wants now?
My little ‘field of dreams’ bleeds into where the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will be. It’s not a vast sea of cornstalks or wide open farm fields. My ‘field’ is a carpet of green unrolling between gentle hills and bordered by the 101 freeway at the entrance end. It will host the obvious legacy of P-22; concrete proof, literally, that P-22 will be remembered and celebrated for years beyond counting.
My hope is that the bridge will blend gently into my valley-'field' and it will be covered in the same soft, velvety green it is now, turning to yellows and dry grasses as summer comes.
My little ‘field of dreams’ bleeds into where the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will be. It’s not a vast sea of cornstalks or wide open farm fields. My ‘field’ is a carpet of green unrolling between gentle hills and bordered by the 101 freeway at the entrance end. It will host the obvious legacy of P-22; concrete proof, literally, that P-22 will be remembered and celebrated for years beyond counting.
My hope is that the bridge will blend gently into my valley-'field' and it will be covered in the same soft, velvety green it is now, turning to yellows and dry grasses as summer comes.
It can't stay this way forever, undiscovered and green.
 |  P-22’s crossing is being built now. Support beams are sprouting and earth movers are, moving earth. But before mounds of dirt and the occasional roaming critter transform this hollow, Jimmie and I are loving this seemingly out of the way place. Bulldozers aren't here to destroy it but it will not be what it is now, empty, quiet, with the beauty of a sort of wildness still present. |  |
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On the verge of history with it's bridge to the future for wildlife.
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