California highways are creating an extinction crisis. And mountain lions aren’t the only roadkill.
When it comes to saving wildlife habitat and improving ecological connectivity, diminutive California newts — and many other species — need our help just as much as the state’s top feline predators. We are witnessing an extinction crisis on a heartbreaking scale. California, which has the most imperiled biodiversity of the 48 contiguous states, is at the core of that crisis.