Summary
It's been a big week for Joe Burnett, senior biologist with the Ventana Wildlife Society. From a room in the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where his wife Wendy is about to give birth to the couple's first child, Burnett describes a recent mission into the Big Sur backcountry to check the status of a month-old condor chick nesting in a cliff cave. The chick is the first condor hatched in Big Sur in 100 years. VWS began its efforts to reintroduce the endangered bird to the region in 1987. (The Weekly reported the story behind the chick's hatching in "The Littlest Condor," April 19-25.)
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Alive and Flapping
It's been a big week for Joe Burnett, senior biologist with the Ventana Wildlife Society. F...
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