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 lookout’s past history continues.
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!
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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, educating the public about condors & the recovery program and providing a presence at the Lookout). We need to fund a second intern. We need to raise $2500.00. THE GOOD NEWS: we already have $1500.00!
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Captive condors could fly wild, free
*Rebuilding - Three birds from the Oregon Zoo’s program could join a flock near the Grand Canyon * Tuesday, March 04, 2008 KATY MULDOON *The Oregonian Staff*
Three California condors hatched at the Oregon Zoo could fly free for the first time this month in a spot that seems made for the massive, magnificent birds — near the Grand Canyon.
If the birds are released as planned March 15 at northern Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, near the canyon’s north rim, they will join a flock of 65.
