Since 2020, the center has cared for 16 mountain lions as well as thousands of other wild animals from baby songbirds to coyotes to bears.
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Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Sep. 2025
This is designed to prevent devastating wildfires like those that occurred in 2011, when dozens of animals died in fires that burned 370,000 hectares (940,000 acres) of the park.
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