Hi all,
Last week Kevin Cooper conducted an onsite field trip to Hi Mountain
Lookout attended by 15 U.S. Forest Service staff. This was the new Los
Padres Forest Supervisor’s first visit and orientation to the project.
The Forest Service staff were very appreciative and supportive of all
our efforts at the lookout.

On Aug. 26th we had a 5 hour planning and discussion meeting in San Luis
Obispo at the conference room of the Cal Poly Bio. Sci. Dept. Attendees
were volunteers, staff and agency personnel from the Hi Mountain Lookout
Project, U.S. Forest Service at Santa Lucia Ranger District, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service at Hopper Mountain NWR, Morro Coast Audubon
Society, Cal Poly Biological Sciences Department. Ventana Wilderness
Society, National Park Service at Pinnacles National Monument, and
Friends of the Carizzo Plains National Monument. It was an opportunity
to get together for a meeting in a centralized location, improve future
communications and exchange of condor radio and GPS tracking data
between our different groups, and to stay connected. This working group
expects to continue meeting like this more frequently in the future.

Our interns and volunteer staff at the lookout this summer continue to
be
rewarded for their long hours of work by visual sightings of Californa
Condors flying by, nearly every week!

Steve Schubert
MCAS Volunteer Coordinator