Sixth Meeting

Santa Lucia Natural History Symposium

held at Esalen Institute, February 3, 2001

Art Hazebrook, biologist at Fort Hunter-Liggett, talks to our group about his work. 2-3-01	UCSC researcher Diane Thompson tells us about her work with bees.
At lunch we ate at the Esalen lodge for a delicious meal. Big Creek steward Rohana Mayer surprised John Smiley with a birthday cake! 2-3-01	We met in the attic of the art barn for the afternoon. During the morning we sat in a big circle in the dance dome. 2-3-01
The group was very attentive and the meeting was extremely effective in accomplishing our goals. We'll do it again in October. 2-3-01	Watching a presentation. 2-3-01

Participant List

name	specialty	affiliation
Erin Avery	plants	UCSC
Steve Chambers	Backcountry	VWA
Kevin Cooper	Wildlife Biologist	USFS
Larry Ford	botany	private consultant
Steve Harper	Naturalist	Esalen
Grey Hayes	Grasslands	UCSC
Art Hazebrook*	resource ecologist	FHL
Jeff Kennedy	botany	UC Davis
Corky Matthews	Botanist	CNPS
Rohana Mayer	coliform/ water qu.	UCSC
Nikki Nedeff	land conservation	BSLT
David Nelson	Veg. restoration	Esalen
Jeff Norman	Botanist	private consultant
Lee Otter	landscape ecology	Coastal Commission
Carrie Pomeroy	Fishing Survey	UCSC
Don Roberson	Birds	Audubon Soc.
Alix Rogstad	resource ecologist	FHL
Will Satterthwaite	plants	UCSC
Jason Scott*	birds	VWS
John Smiley	Insects	UCSC
Diane Thomson*	Bees	UCSC
Tommy Williams	steelhead	NMFS
*afternoon speakers gave 30-60 minute presentations; all others gave 5-10 minute summaries of what they are doing or other topics of interest

Many thanks to:
Steve Harper for facilitating the meeting and reminding us of our goals and philosophy, David Nelson for working out the logistics with Esalen, Rohana Mayer for lots of office work and taking notes, to John Smiley for organizing the meeting and inviting participants, to Esalen Instutute for generously offering meeting space, meals, and positive energy for our group, to Big Creek Reserve for supporting the symposium before, during and after the meetings, and to all the participants who took time out of their busy lives to spend a day getting to know each other.