Hi Mt. MCAS Program with Dr. Villablanca 11/17

Monday, November 17th7 pm El Chorro Regional Park, at the SLO Botanical Garden Education Building The California Condor Tracking Program with Dr. Francis Villablanca: Morro Coast Audubon Society has provided funding to assist California Polytechnic State University in hiring summer interns...

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Excerpts from John Schmitt’s feather lecture (6 clips)

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2008 Hi Mt. Open House Event Schedule

Bird Watching Field Trip: 9:00am - 11:30am (Pozo Valley to Hi Mountain)Meet at Pozo Ranger Station. Carpooling recommended. Habitats: grassland, riparian woodland at Salinas River crossing, valley oak, blue oak and coast-live oak woodlands, chaparral. Easy hiking conditions and car pooling. Advanced registration requested: contact Steve at s_schub@webtv.net or #805 528-6138. Leader: Peter...

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San Luis Obispo Gem and Mineral Club visits the Lookout

eclecticarcania.blogspot.com wrote… Upon rounding the final bend on approach to the lookout we noticed a Forest Service SUV parked there and a couple of people on the tower with one being a woman (Karlien Lang) who immediately waved to us. This was yet another first for me up there as I had never...

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A Summer at Hi Mountain with the Interns

Hi everybody, my name is Patrick White, for those of you who do not know me I am one of the interns working at Hi Mountain this summer. Another intern is Shannon Murphy, who worked here at the beginning of summer before she left to go to Costa Rica, and the other is Karlien Lang who took Shannon’s place about half way through the summer. We have been up here since Fourth of July weekend collecting...

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Hi Mountain History Lesson

Here are the old lookout photos from the scrapbook that Kevin found (I wonder if the 3rd photo is the same building as the 1961 photo, or an earlier structure??. A 1976 photo from MCAS is also included). Below is the text that is posted on the Buck Rock Lookout Foundation website…from Dave Bulla’s letter, it suggests a lookout was present in 1926, but I wonder if that is correct. The mystery of the...

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Welcome to our 2008 Interns and Volunteers

With the beginning of the Summer 2008 tracking season, we would like to welcome 4 new individuals to the Hi Mt. Lookout staff. Congratulations to Cal Poly students Shannon Murphy, Patrick White, Karlien Lang, and Sara Silverberg for being chosen to staff the Lookout this summer! We wish you a productive,...

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The Preegrine Falcons of Morro Rock- by Steve Schubert

Here’s a chance to support the Lookout Project and learn something about Peregrine falcons at the same time. Steve Schubert, Hi Mt. Volunteer Coordinator, has authored a book that is now available for purchase online. Forty percent of sales proceeds for Steve’s book ordered online by August 1, 2008...

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Santa Lucia Wilderness Area, 24 May ‘08

Hello all, On Saturday, May 24th, I hiked down from Hi Mtn. Lookout to Hi Valley and Huff’s Hole, in the Santa Lucia Wilderness Area of Los Padres National Forest. I met up with Gary Guliazi in Hi Valley, who hiked in from Hi Mountain Rd after driving in from the Arroyo Grande side. At 9:30 am, the south wind was blowing 25 mph at the lookout, with a windchill of 33*F. The temperature remained in...

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"Hi, but not Above"

Author/journalist and Hi Mt. Volunteer John FitzRandolph recently had this article about the Hi Mt. Lookout and desert tortoises published in The Cambrian. Thanks John! http://condorlookout.org/archive/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/condor-tortoise....

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"Hi But Not Above" by John Fitzrandolf

Author/journalist and Hi Mt. Volunteer John FitzRandolph recently had this article about the Hi Mt. Lookout and desert tortoises published in The Cambrian. Thanks John! Download the entire article here (pd...

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Hi Mt. History lesson

Here are the old lookout photos from the scrapbook that Kevin found (I wonder if the 3rd photo is the same building as the 1961 photo, or an earlier structure??. A 1976 photo from MCAS is also included). Below is the text that is posted on the Buck Rock Lookout Foundation website…from Dave Bulla’s letter, it suggests a lookout was present in 1926, but I wonder if that is correct. The mystery of the...

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CALL FOR HELP! Summer ‘08 Internship Fundraiser

Hi Mountain Lookout needs YOUR help for summer ‘08! We are soliciting matching funds needed by end of April. Cal Poly’s Biological Science Department has funding for one summer intern to staff Hi Mountain for summer 2008 (tracking Calif. Condors, opening the Hi Mountain Interpretive Center,...

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Celebration honors Jan Hamber, Noel and Helen Snyder and Pedro Nava

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