Forest Service Recognition

Hi everybody. I just wanted to let you know that the Washington office ofthe Forest Service recognized the Hi Mountain Lookout Project as anexcellent example of the Naturewatch program, and gave us some good press.I was happily surprised at our regional meeting with the award. I plan topiggyback on this and use the exposure to help obtain some funding.Seems like every time we get the word out, we...

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Hi Notes

I spent a couple of pleasant days up at the lookout this week and was rewarded with signals from two Pinnacles National Monument condors: Bk 265 and Bk 287. I don’t know if these two birds just have stronger transmitters or if they are up and about more than the other 4 birds, but I’ve picked up at least one of them the last three times I’ve monitored from the lookout. As...

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Condors at Hi Mt.

Last Friday, 2/6, USFS wildlife biologists Kevin Cooper and Tom Murphey were working on improvements at Hi Mountain Lookout, joined by several Cal Poly students staffing the lookout. They had a sighting of two condors ‘chasing’ each other over the Huff’s Hole cliffs below, then continuing on and perching in a tree near one of the large rock outcrops to the east of Hi Valley...

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