Big Sur Lodge
Where nature becomes part of you.
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Big Sur Redwoods in trouble

Salmon Restoration
threatened by
industrial logging
Living with Nature
Network of community groups and people who care about California natural and cultural history.


See the whole California Coast by helicopter at Coastal Records
PelicanNetwork promotes environmental sustainability by advancing natural and cultural history education, and organizing for community conservation.

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New Big Sur Guide ......Blast from the past - Salmon Gallery

 
Coming October 13, 2013
Carmel River Festival
and Feast

festival in Carmel Valley
to save the river -
Call 831 238 1683

Save Pescadero Marsh

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The future of California
is in fixing the past

Waves of people came to California to take the
natural bounty.

First the beaver and otter, then gold, land and water

Sign up to help Renew California

Renew California
a presentation of California Destruction and Restoration

 
Restore the Carmel River 
We are working with Carmel Valley conservation groups to restore the River'


See Carmel Valley

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Carmel River Festival and Feast

 

 



Central Coast Wine Expedition

Where each sip takes you to a place like no place on earth.

Two day tour of the natural & cultural history of California's magnificent Central Coast and the amazaing wines of its seven spectacular wine appellations. Circumnavigate Santa Lucia coastal range

Now accepting passengers for
May, June, August, September and October expeditions


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Expedition

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Big Sur Wine Expeditions
Backcountry Wilderness and Cultural tours
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Big Sur Road Guide .................... Big Sur Trail Guide

Our work was written about by Laura Cunningham in her landmark book, State of Change.


Pelican Network worked with native people in the Klamath River watershed, and established the Klamath Restoration Council.

Our mission: restore and protect the uniquely diverse ecosystemand promote the sustainable management of natural resources in the entire Klamath River watershed.

We believe this will be accomplished with actions and legislatin that integrate sound and proven techniques based on tribal knowledge, local experience and the best of Western Science.

Pelican Network Salmon Gallery from

the Klamath Watershed

 Klamath Restoration

KRC story in Trees Foundation

Carmel

Monterey

Pacific Grove

Carmel Valley


Central Coast cultural and natural history tour

Point Lobos

Point Lobos Hikes and Trail Map

Pebble Beach

Elkhorn Slough 

Castroville
M
oss Landing

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Photo by Leora Worthington

Monterey Bay &
Peninsula

A frontier of learning how humans can live with nature.

Point Lobos

Where California's Parks and Eco Tourism movement began.

Central Coast Tour iPhone

Big Sur Coast Trail

Coastal community grassroots proposal to complete the California Coastal Trail through Big Sur - the most challenging component of the California Coastal Trail.


 

Big Sur Hikes
printable guides

Check out all the trails in our
Big Sur State Parks

Big Sur Coastal State Parks
Trail Guide
Printable preview of the book

Photo at left: Bluffs Trail seen from Headlands Trail - Molera State Park

Big Sur Trail Guide

Photo at left: Canyon Fall - Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

Photos by Jack Ellwanger

Cambria

San Simeon

Harmony

Cayucos

Morro Bay

Montaña de Oro

San Antonio Valley

Salinan Nation


 

Once thought extinct, Elephant Seals have made a resounding comeback. Go to the scene of some real wildlife excitement. Hearst would have loved it, right there in his front yard!
Elephant Seal Photo Gallery
California Coastal Trail Book
Coastal Trail Website

Click and go map

Big Sur Story

Camping

Ventana Wilderness

Birding
Interactive Map

Big Sur Lodge

Yucca Whipplei in verse

a coastal wilderness
Photos by Margie Whitnah
Photo by Jack Ellwanger
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Big Sur Road Guide
 

Molera Beach

Pfeiffer Big Sur

Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

Partington
Canyon

The Highway

Bombing defeated

 

Big Sur Redwoods Preservation

Coastal Redwoods in their southern habitat are distinct and in dangerl. Evolving uniquely in rare geologic conditions, making a rainforest in what would be a desert, these redwoods have always had steep challenges. But now, because of poor forest management, they are deeply threatened by fire.

 

Don McQueen is part of an effort to rewrite the forest management plan.

Santa Cruz Story and gallery - Where change is the natural order

Natural Bridges Butterfly Sanctuary


Santa Cruz Redwoods

Big Basin and Felton big trees inspired California's Parks and Conservation movement



Photo by Jack Ellwanger

 

 Big Basin Redwoods

Big Sur River Restoration

A citizens' group is forming to help the Big Sur River which is in peril from too much human use.

Proceeds from the 2008 Big Sur Chanterelle Cook Off provided funds to help create Stewards of the Big Sur River.

 
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Stewards of the
Big Sur River

River Monitoring Pictures

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Visit our Big Sur Gallery

 


Click and Go Map

Many hundreds of thousands of Monarch Butterflies fly 2,500 miles in an arduous one month journey to arrive in Central Coastal California each fall with a great purpose..

Monarch Butterfly Central Coast Winter Habitats

The Epic Journey of Monarchs

Natural Bridges Butterfly Sanctuary

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Old Coast Road and Highway One

Molera Beach State Park

California Back Country

Day Trips in Nature and Culture - See Big Sur Tours Day Trips
Guided Coastal Hikes Overnight TourWine ExpeditionsWilderness & Cultural Tours

Winemaker Jerry Lohr talks with tour group

Central Coast Wine Expedition A wine & nature immersion
of the California Central Coast

A PelicanNetwork project to support
community stewardship.

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Big Sur Chanterelle
Cook-Off -Photo Gallery
Join us for the
Big Sur Chanterelle Cook-Off

Celebrate the unique wonders of Big Sur and the wonderful cuisine here. Chefs compete for a good community cause.

Story from last year's Cook Off

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