Animal Advocates supports California Bill AB 1889 the Room to Roam Act. The leading cause of death and extinction of some wildlife species is human development. Highways, housing projects, farming can block wildlife access to food, water, shelter and mating. Wildlife can be killed trying to cross highways or property fencing to access parts of their natural range. Species such as mountain lions can go extinct from inbreeding in a limited range. This bill would make it mandatory for cities and counties to include plans which allow wildlife connectivity in and through human development.
My only concern is that humans will build in a wildlife area. There will be connectivity features so wildlife such as mountain lions, deer can pass through the property. Humans may then want to kill the wildlife that passes through the property. I hope the government then enforces existing wildlife regulations to protect the wildlife from humans. Currently they allow depredation permits to kill wildlife that say eats a pet rabbit or crops. Hopefully they will include some language to this effect in the final version of the bill that people must protect their pets, livestock and crops.
"AB 1889, as introduced, Friedman. General plan: wildlife connectivity element.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan that includes various elements, including land use and housing elements, as specified.
This bill would require a general plan to include a wildlife connectivity element, or related goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, that considers the effect of development within the jurisdiction on fish, wildlife, and habitat connectivity, as specified. The bill would require the wildlife connectivity element to, among other things, identify and analyze connectivity areas, permeability, and natural landscape areas within the jurisdiction, incorporate and analyze specified guidelines and standards, incorporate and analyze relevant information from specified sources, and incorporate and analyze relevant best available science. The bill would require a city or county subject to these provisions to adopt or review the wildlife connectivity element, or related goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, upon the adoption or next revision of one or more elements on or after January 1, 2025. The bill would include related legislative findings and declarations. By adding to the duties of county and city officials in the administrating of their land use planning duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program."
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