where are all the Monarchs?

[Mark Walker]

Awesome news.  I've spent 15 years walking on that private property, and
have been very sad to see the ranch developed.  My parents live in the 2nd
house down from where the gate on Buckley Dr. used to be.  The spot you
refer to is a 5 minute stroll from there.  I remember watching them build
that house for Steven Spielberg's spider movie, and then being amazed at how
fast they tore it down without any trace of it ever being there.  That
particular spot used to be a home site, long since gone but the flower
garden kept growing back.  The new road covers all that up now.

Take care,

Mark Walker.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Cherubini [SMTP:paulcher at concentric.net]
> Sent:	Friday, December 04, 1998 9:54 AM
> To:	Mark Walker
> Cc:	'LEPS-L'
> Subject:	Re: where are all the Monarchs?
> 
> 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