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). |
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