Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Hi Notes

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Hi Notes Wed. April 23: I picked up signals from two Condors, briefly, in the morning: OR199 and W219 must have taken a short morning excursion north from Hopper Mountain. Their signals were weak and lasted only an hour. No more Condor activity all day. The House Finches at the lookout have been attempting to set up ‘house’ in the gutters and behind the shutters of the lookout. I’ve liberated three...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Hi notes

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Last week Steve Schubert sent a posting regarding their trek to Hi Valley and Hugh’s Hole on Friday April 11th. I monitored both Condors and the trekers from the lookout and got lots of signals from Steve and crew via the radios, but nothing from the Condors. This week, Wed. April 16th, there were no Condor signals, either. I did see four Tulle Elk at the edge of the last meadow before the drive...
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Saturday, April 12, 2003

Huff's Hole report

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Yesterday, 4/11, Kevin Cooper and I made our annual trip down into Huff’s Hole, in the Santa Lucia Wilderness Area of Los Padres National Forest. We hiked from Hi Mountain Lookout -about 8 miles round trip- down to Hi Valley and for about a mile beyond Hi Valley Rock we cut brush and clipped poison oak along the trail, with the assistance of Tom Murphey, USFS employee, and volunteer Neil Wilcox. We...
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Friday, April 4, 2003

Condor sighting

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Kevin and Mary Cooper put in a long day working on projects at Hi Mountain Lookout on Sunday, Aug. 3rd. Afterwards, while mountain biking along the ridgetop, they spotted an adult yellow-tagged condor flying below over Huff’s Hole!! Those cliffs were last occupied by nesting condors in the early 1970’s. Steve Schube...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2003

lookout report

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Spent Wednesday March 26 through Monday at the Lookout. It was good to be back after being away for over a month. The cistern is nearly full thanks to the new rain gutters and the ample rain that has fallen in the last few months. There is a lot of work to be done to prepare for Spring surveys to begin on our 75 study plots scattered throughout Oak Woodland, Riparian, and Chaparral communities surrounding...
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