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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Jenny voice Ard with

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Speaker 1: friends of Big Bear Valley. Good morning, Jenny, Good morning. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we have so much to get to with you.

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Speaker 1: First of all, we've told our wake Up Crew listeners

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Speaker 1: that we lost Sandy Steers and that was tragic and

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Speaker 1: we're so sorry for your loss. We've gotten so many

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Speaker 1: nice emails and calls and dms from people who love

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Speaker 1: Sandy as much as we did, so we're so sorry

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Speaker 1: to hear about that.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for your kind words. It

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Speaker 2: has been very difficult, as she was loved by her

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Speaker 2: team and as you say, by many others, and we

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Speaker 2: too have gotten just so many wonderful kind notes and

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Speaker 2: messages and comments, and it has been very uplifting during

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Speaker 2: this time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and she's she was always just like

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Speaker 1: willing to come on at a moment's notice and talk

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Speaker 1: to us about, you know, her passion project Jackie in Shadow,

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Speaker 1: and we so appreciated that and what just a gentle soul.

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Speaker 1: So we miss her already and I'm sorry that she

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Speaker 1: didn't get to see because that Jackie is back on

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Speaker 1: the nest.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think that was the only hard thing of

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Speaker 2: the day. Yesterday was not being able to talk to

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Speaker 2: talk to Sandy about the egg. Guess yeah, but however

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Speaker 2: she was with us and very excited. I am sure

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Speaker 2: to see that Jackie did in fact lay an egg

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Speaker 2: yesterday and around to forty cam time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this would be the second clutch of eggs Jenny,

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Speaker 1: and there's there's a chance she'll lay some more. They

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Speaker 1: usually come about two or three days apart.

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Speaker 2: Yes, potentially, we will look to see if she does

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Speaker 2: what is called delayed incubation, so that means she'll stand

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Speaker 2: to the side or hover over or Jackie in shadow

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Speaker 2: may leave the egg, you know, kind of open to

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Speaker 2: the air for a few minutes about the day and

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Speaker 2: so that's what we'll watch to see and they do

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Speaker 2: that so if they have multiple eggs, that they hatch

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Speaker 2: closer together and that the chicks are closer in size.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm looking at the big bear bald ego

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Speaker 1: cam right now. Jackie just stood up, so I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at the egg, so precious, I'm so happy. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: the reason that we actually were planning to talk today

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Speaker 1: is also very important. It's something that Sandy had been

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Speaker 1: working on for quite a while before she passed away,

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Speaker 1: and that was that she was opposing a development that's

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Speaker 1: was going to go up in Big Bear and tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about Mooncamp and what's going on

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Speaker 1: with it and why we need your help.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. Sandy was fighting it for almost twenty

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Speaker 2: five years. In fact, this development was what originally became

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Speaker 2: the the what formed Friends of Big Bear Valley. And

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Speaker 2: so it is a strip of shoreline that is about

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Speaker 2: less than a mile from the nest and it is

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Speaker 2: where bald eagles and before Jackie in Shadow, Ricky and

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Speaker 2: Lucy would perch and forage for food. And it is

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Speaker 2: also where there is a rare and endangered plant species

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Speaker 2: that is found nowhere else in the world. And so

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Speaker 2: Sandy has been working to conserve and preserve this strip

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Speaker 2: of shoreline from a luxury housing development and marina slips

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Speaker 2: that is felt set to be built. And Friends of

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Speaker 2: Big Bear Valley was able to stop the project in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two through the courts, but they appealed and

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Speaker 2: got things started and it was approved again in September.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what can people do or what are you

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Speaker 1: trying to do? Now?

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Speaker 2: We have created a site called Savemooncamp dot org, and

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Speaker 2: before Sandy passed away, he was able to negotiate a

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Speaker 2: limited purchase agreement so that the San Bernardino Mountains Land

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Speaker 2: Trust is working to purchase the land for permanent conservation. Now,

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Speaker 2: we only have until the end of July to raise

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Speaker 2: the money to do so, and it's ten million dollars,

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Speaker 2: which is a lot. And we have a special website

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Speaker 2: called SafeMoon camp dot org that you can go and donate.

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Speaker 2: And if it looks like we're not going to meet

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Speaker 2: the deadline, then we will take the funds that we

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Speaker 2: have raised and put it towards a financing option, because

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Speaker 2: failure is not an option. We believe that Jack and

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Speaker 2: Shadow would likely leave the area and it would be

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Speaker 2: harder for them to raise chicks if it were to

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Speaker 2: go through.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so if you can raise the money, you can

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Speaker 1: buy the land and it would be permanently a conservatorship,

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Speaker 1: so it wouldn't be developed and it would be saved.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you've got until July, so not

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Speaker 1: a lot of time. But I was thinking a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have called and asked what can we do

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Speaker 1: to say thank you to Sandy? How can we honor her.

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Speaker 2: That would be a great way to do it. We

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Speaker 2: are we are doing this in continuing Sandy's work and

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Speaker 2: doing this in her name and carrying the torch for her.

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Speaker 2: This was a top priority in something she believed to

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Speaker 2: her core. And if you would like to help, you

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Speaker 2: can go to Savemoon Camp dot org.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jenny Voysard, thank you so much. Friends of

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Speaker 1: Big Bear Valley. You guys do such great work. Again,

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Speaker 1: we are so sorry for the loss of Sandy. Oh

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. I know that you had

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Speaker 1: said that you were going to wait until the weather's

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Speaker 1: a little warmer, but there will be some sort of

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Speaker 1: a celebration of life for Sandy in the future.

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Speaker 2: Oh. Yes, we will plan a public outdoor celebration of life.

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Speaker 2: And so we just want to ensure that several feet

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Speaker 2: of snow won't be dumped on folks that are trying

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Speaker 2: to come. So we'll have to wait a little bit

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Speaker 2: until late spring until we can rely on the weather

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Speaker 2: a little bit more, but we will definitely let everybody

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Speaker 2: know when that's going to be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, great, Thank you so much, Jenny, And again we're

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Speaker 1: super excited because Jackie's got a new egg and we'll

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Speaker 1: be watching the Big Bear Bald Eagle cam with eagle

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Speaker 1: eyed for the next month until hopefully one of the

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Speaker 1: at least one of the egglets hatches. Thanks again, jenck.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. Appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: All right, take care, we'll talk to you soon