Letters to the Editor: We need to treat cougar P-97’s death as the emergency it is

P-97, an 18-month-old male mountain lion, was struck and killed on the southbound 405 Freeway close to the Getty Middle on April 21.

(Santa Monica Mountains Nationwide Recreation Space)

To the editor: We’re inured to cougar roadkill. On April 21, the eve of Earth Day, we had the twenty sixth on this area throughout the final twenty years.

Your article, whereas useful, failed to supply actions that may be taken to mitigate these roadkill. I supply some strategies:

• Submit warning indicators at identified cougar crossings, and publish a decreased velocity restrict at these places.
  
• Improve and implement civil and felony penalties for violation of statutes defending threatened or endangered species.
  
• Purchase and restore by way of eminent area identified cougar habitats, together with the complete 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch, the place 11 have been killed by hunters, and designate them as wildlife sanctuary.
  
• Hyperlink the plight of cougars to the human-caused sixth mass extinction and to the local weather disaster.
  

Robert Leyland Monefeldt, Los Angeles

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To the editor: Tragic as it's, the demise Thursday of cougar P-97, struck by a automobile on the 405 Freeway, couldn’t be extra related.

He's actually the paschal lamb of the motion to save lots of future pumas by erecting wildlife crossings, particularly, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway at Liberty Canyon in Agoura Hills, whose groundbreaking was Friday.

Might P-97’s demise assist save numerous different animals who dare to traverse our mega-highways.

Natalie Corridor, Encino

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To the editor: We people have created vehicles that may drive themselves, with our help. Some vehicles will even cease for me in the event that they sense me crossing a road.

Cougars in Southern California are tagged and tracked. How a lot of a problem wouldn't it be to place one other gizmo on the collar that provides the animal a small electrical shock whether it is about to cross the 405 and there's oncoming visitors?

Hopefully, Meeting Invoice 2344, presently within the state Legislature, will cross, and 10 extra wildlife overpasses can be thrown up in a jiffy to eradicate “roadside kill sizzling spots.”

Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles