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3.7.03

Last Week we had a group of students from Livingston, California. The week started off kind of quiet, but ended up being a great week. We did the West End of the Valley (El Capitan Meadow) on the first day. Then we went to Yosemite Falls on Wednesday and hiked up to "Oh My Gosh Rock." This was my first time at Oh My Gosh Rock and the view was great. Beautiful.

Thursday we all got together and did some stream bio monitoring. Afterwards we came to find that we had done this in an area that had not been tested before, so our data was very helpful. Cool stuff. And that night we had a campfire. I think it went really well. Everybody got up and into it. Didn't seem afraid of making themselves look silly. They sang and danced and we all sat around and talked about the week and did our thank you's.

I enjoyed myself so much with this group of students. It was hard to see them go. I miss you guys.

This week Jocelyn and I started on a research project for the wildlink website. Once it is finished it will contain information on some of the wildlife you can find here in Yosemite, such as mountain lions and bears. This can be accessed by anybody.

So far we have interviewed two of the people involved in the bear studies, and a man who has been involved with the mountain lion research. I'd have to say that we've learned a lot of interesting information. We were even able to go along with one of the bear researchers and do some telemetry to find out where the bears are. So keep and eye out, we still have a few more interviews and things to take car of for the website. Hopefully it'll come out well.