Fort Indiantown Gap is an active military base, but in the middle of the base is a special habitat for a special butterfly. Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) has been threatened by declining habitat area for the last fifty years. The military site offers them protection, and is the only remaining habitat for this butterfly left… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Travelog
California Condors
This is a repost of the story I posted some time ago on on 500px. California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is one of the rarest birds in North America. Hunted and poached close to extinction, only ~400 of these majestic birds are alive today, with only a fraction of them reintroduced into the wild. Last summer… Read more »
Overwintering Monarchs
Every year millions of monarch butterflies fly more than three thousand miles from Canada to Mexico, to the same mountains where a year earlier their grandparents spent the winter. This phenomenon is the migration of the Eastern Monarch. Last month I took the trip, organized by Expedition Travel, to the Transvolcanic mountain range in Mexico… Read more »
Southwest ’09: part 6
Sequoia National Park A walk in the Giant Forest Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park Burned Sequoias, and closed trails. But what really does a closed trail really mean? Point Lobos State Reserve Cold wind from the ocean. Dragonfly rescue from an abandoned spider web. Fort Ross The Russians are everywhere… Salt Point… Read more »
Southwest ’09: part 5
Mono Lake Sunset at the Mono Lake. Wind whirled up waves, and picked up flies. Yosemite National Park Friendly bear came onto the parking lot to the excitement of visitors. View of Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point after a thunderstorm. Kings Canyon National Park Hike to Mist Falls along the King River.