Martine Colette, founder of LA's Wildlife Waystation who rescued animals by the thousands, dies at 79
LOS ANGELES — Martine Colette, an animal rights advocate who founded the sprawling Wildlife Waystation at the doorstep of the Angeles National Forest where thousands of rescued animals — lions, alligators, wolves, owls, pot-bellied pigs and chimpanzees — awaited new homes, has died at 79.
For years the 160-acre sanctuary stood as a model for rescuing exotic animals abandoned by
