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From August, 2001 to August 2002, a web cam added a 9:00 am image to a Quicktime Movie of the view to the right. If you click on the image (right), it will download a 11.3Mb movie showing the seasonal changes in the grasslands and forests of Hastings as we cycle through fall, winter snow and rains and the hot, dry summer and fall. If you don't have Quicktime to view the movies, download free Quicktime viewer, and install.

 

Occasional Galleries:

Fall Colors, 2006

An overview of Hastings (left), looking north from Poison Oak Hill towards Red Hill and the Sierra de Salinas in the distance. All of the open savanna in the center of the photo is Hastings.
Some other images are below; click on each to to enlarge.


Bunk House, or Fanny's Cottage. New in 1994.


Interior of DNA laboratory, new in 1993


Fall view up Red Hill. Photo by David Gubernick.


Finch Creek in winter, alders and maple.


Prescribed fire on School Hill, 1997


Foggy Valley Oak, Headquaters. Photo by Galen Rowell


Hastings Cabin, rebuilt in 1995. David Gubernick in photo.


Laguna Viejo, a vernal pool, in late spring. Photo by David Gubernick.


Lower Barn, rebuilt in 1992. Mark Johnson in photo.


Offices and DNA lab (left); near Scott Barn at headquarters.


Ramalina menziesii, lace lichen, close up


Ramalina menziesii, lace lichen, on sycamore at sunset.


Cahoon Ranch House in 1998, with Wisteria on screened porch.


Robertson House, restored in 1995.


Robertson House, recently restored, with class.


Poison Oak Ridge, from Arnold Road. Arson fire 9/2/80, shows Hastings topography well. Most of these blue oaks and valley oaks died in this hot fire, started from Carmel Valley Road, at bottom of canyon in front, lower part of photograph.


School House. Built in 1930; a Hugh Comstock House.


Scott Barn, homesteaded in 1860. Spring. Photo by David Gubernick.


Snow on Blue Oaks. Photo by David Gubernick.


Snow on Haystack Hill. Photo by David Gubernick.


Stucco House. Occupied for many years by Jimmie and Lois Bell.


Lower Barn, from offices. Summer


Sunset over Laguna Conejo. Photo by David Gubernick


Remote Access Weather Station (RAWS) on Hastings, maintained by CDF. Pete Trenham in photograph.


Workshop. Tripod for filming acorn woodpekcers, under construction.


Fall on Hastings, Entry Lane, Black Oak