Last intern update

Hello Everyone!We just finished our last week up at Hi Mountain on Wednesday! We ended the yearwith all of the interns up at the lookout for the last few days together. It wasa little squished with all 6 of us hanging out in the lookout but we were ingreat company.I will keep this update short as I am sure most of you will be up at the lookoutfor open house. We will be rehashing our research experiences...

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Field Research Projects

Hello all,This morning Los Padres wildlife biologist Kevin Cooper and I accompanied two ofthe Hi Mountain Cal Poly student interns 2.5 miles along the Trout Creek trailto one of their study plots within the Garcia Mountain Wilderness Area in LosPadres National Forest. Ashley and Natalie checked the 15 small mammallive-trapping stations within the study plot and came up with two newly capturedBrush...

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Intern Update Weeks 7 and 8

Hi Everyone!We have just completed out 8th week up at Hi Mountain and have several updatesto share. In these past two weeks, both groups have been spending their time in a mixtureof oak woodland and chaparral plots. The chaparral plots are proving to beextremely different from one another...depending on location a plot may beextremely diverse (even harbor a few Dipodomys spp.) or extremely bland as...

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