where are all the Monarchs?

[Paul Cherubini]

Mark Walker wrote:

> 
> I spend a lot of time in Cambria. I lived there for awhile, wiring the Green
> Tree Motel, along with many custom homes, while going to school at Cal Poly.
> My parents live on Buckley Dr.

I forgot to mention there is another site real close to Buckley Drive.  
If you walk into the forest a short way from where the north end of
Buckley Drive intersects with that new paved road (Cambria Pines Rd.?) 
and then walk a block towards the ocean, there is often a colony in
there.  This is private property, however.

I believe Professor Kingston Leong at Cal Poly SLO has done alot of
monarch consulting and monarch survey work for the County and/or for
developers in the forests of Cambria.  

Last year the biggest collection of overwintering sites in this region
was not in the massive pine forests of Cambria, but in the much smaller
eucalyptus groves growing on the Black Hill Golf Course in nearby Morro
Bay, California. Walt Sakai estimated the Golf Course population at
109,000 in early January.

Paul Cherubini, El Dorado, California