USEFUL Links
Here are connections that you may find informative and useful. There are links displayed in various categories. To go to a particular grouping of links, scroll down, or click the categories here:
General Info
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Maintains and patrols trails in the Ventana Wilderness, Monterey County, CA. |
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Monitors and maintains California Condors, eagles and other wildlife in the Central California Coast region. Also, condor tours, condor cams--lots! |
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Sespe Condor Sanctuary |
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Condor Recovery Story from Esri. Who is Esri? They say, "We build ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping and spatial analytics software." |
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Condor Recovery Program |
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Report |
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The Condor Trail is a backpacking/hiking thru-trail that extends the length of the Los Padres Forest along the coastal mountains of Central California. |
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Condor habitat in southern California, US Fish and Wildilife Service. |
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About the Hopper Mountain Refuge, condor habitat in Ventura County |
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A good resource that defines and explains terms and functions of land conservation and land trusts, with useful links to other resources (suggested by Danielle). |
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About Climate Resilient Approach to Land Conservation |
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A guide to backpacking that is worth looking at, notably for beginners, plus reviews of various products, that may help sort out the dilemma of what product actually works. I think they don't sell anything, but get paid by directing views to commercial sites. I bought a backpacking watch based on their reviews. |
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A good site to read about low impact camping, but more importantly a site linking to many other sources of info about a "Low Impact" approach. |
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Another good site about low impact camping, different from the above site in the list of other useful links it provides (suggested by researcher MaryAnne Johnson). |
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Here is website of advice from nurses, in this case about what you might do to reasonably protect yourself from common medical situations in the outdoors (suggested by Boy Scout Curtis M. and librarian Olivia I.). |
Related Organizations
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Maintains and patrols trails in the Ventana Wilderness |
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Monitors and maintains California Condors, eagles and other wildlife in the Central California Coast region. Also, condor tours, condor cams--lots! |
About Condors
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Condor Recovery Story from Esri. Who is Esri? They say, "We build ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping and spatial analytics software." |
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Summary of facts, from Cornell University Lab of Ornithology |
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If you see a condor in the wild, it will have a color-coded number on its wing. You can identify that condor with this website. There is data on both the central California (Big Sur and Pinnacles) and southern California populations. |
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US Forest Service protected lands in southern California. |
Mountain Lions
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Short discussion about lions from the National Wildlife Federation. Note: they cite "habitat loss" as one of the greatest reason for declining populations. |
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Organization devoted to mountain lion preservation. |
Wolves
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Facts and links from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife |
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SF Chronicle article |
Conservation Easements
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Basic explanation of Conservation Easements from the Nature Conservancy |
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Options from the Land Trust Alliance, including Conservation Easements |
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From the Conservation Assistance Network. Dated 2007, still has relevant info for those considering a conservation easement. |
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An authoritative and expansive explanation of Conservation Easements from the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association, with examples. |
Birds
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Article from NPR speaking about tremendous loss of bird populations in North America |
Vultures
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June 2019 Report about poisoning critically endangered vultures in Botswana, by elephant poachers. |
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A good intro to the twenty-three species of vulture found across the globe. There are Old World Vultures, and New World Vultures, and many of them are critically endangered. |
Organizations
Other
- Ventana Wildlife Society: https://www.ventanaws.org/
- Big Sur Community Links: www.bigsurcalifornia.org/community.html
- Henry Miller Library: henrymiller.org/
- Hiking in Big Sur: www.hikingbigsur.com
- Big Sur Guides: www.bigsurguides.com
Other
- Sespe Condor Sanctuary: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/lpnf/home/?cid=stelprd3820413
- Sespe Condor Sanctuary map: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3824248.pdf