Crucial O.C. wildlife corridor hits a freeway roadblock

A critical stretch of the Orange County wildlife corridor connecting coastal preserves to the Santa Ana Mountains’ Cleveland National Forest – 2.5 miles on 178 acres of prime real estate traversing Irvine – has been under construction for 1 1/2 years, with huge swaths of a former Marine base being returned to nature.
But there’s a problem.
The animals whose long-term survival could depend on the passage can’t find their way there.The bobcats and gray foxes of the La