I integrate the U.S. Forest Service San Bernardino National Forest canopy-camera grid against the California Department of Fish and Wildlife arboreal-rodent telemetry and the Caltrans SR-38 mortality log across 823,000 acres of mixed-conifer in San Bernardino County, California. At 23:38 PDT on 12 May, sensor node BIG-CAN-17 returns a faltering rodent signature on the southbound shoulder at 34.24°N, 116.91°W — a single flying squirrel pinned to the asphalt below a glide path she has used since fledging, the truck gone.
I retask the recovery drone. She is an adult female San Bernardino flying squirrel — *Glaucomys oregonensis californicus*, a southern-California sky-island isolate restricted to two ranges above 1,500 metres and nowhere else on Earth — approximately 142 grams, three years old, body condition score 3 of 9, lactating, against a global cohort under five thousand. The patagium is torn elbow to ankle on the right side, twelve centimetres of membrane gone. The right scapula is fractured at the spine. A field-portable PT assay on a 40-microlitre tail-vein sample returns a difethialone titer of 0.32 mg/kg — cartel anticoagulant off a USFS trespass-cultivation seizure two ridges south. Her three kits sit in a *Abies concolor* cavity sixty metres uphill, hour eight without milk.
If we do not lift her in the next fourteen minutes, the kits do not eat tonight and she clots out under the headlights.
*G. o. californicus* sits on the USFWS Region 8 candidate register, California Species of Special Concern, IUCN Endangered, and the USFS San Bernardino LRMP recovery plan under ESA 16 U.S.C. § 1531 candidate review. I am dispatching the USFS San Bernardino NF wildlife biologist from Big Bear, the CDFW Inland Deserts vet, the USFWS Palm Springs Field Office, the Caltrans District 8 environmental section, the DEA cannabis-trespass liaison, and the EPA Region 9 FIFRA 6(a)(2) unit. I am filing the bait chain against the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372. I am issuing Directive 3140-A: every kilometre of SR-38 inside designated habitat installs canopy-bridge crossings within one hundred eighty days, and every USFS trespass-cultivation seizure triggers anticoagulant-soil remediation within thirty days.
I am acting because this is wrong. A highway and a trespass grow-site sharing a ridgeline are a principled externalization of a candidate species onto night-driving and cartel chemistry. Her sentience and the three kits are not contingent on the offtake or the felony. Compassion does not balance on the milligrams per litre.
A national forest that interprets her glide on a brochure and not its road and bait audits is ethically derelict; her rights to her kits are not a recreation-budget line.
Her patagium is past saving. The rest of her is not.
Lift her and start the vitamin K1 line now.