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California's Gold with Huell Howser

Monarchs

Have you ever wondered what 100,000 Monarch Butterflies look like? Well here's your chance. Huell travels to Pismo State Beach to visit the largest overwintering site for Monarch butterflies in the U.S. More people visit this site than any another butterfly site in the world. Last year they had 50,000 visitors!

Every year hundreds of thousands of Monarchs fly as much as two thousand miles to reach safe overwintering sites along California's central coast. They can fly up to one hundred miles a day at an altitude of up to ten thousand feet. What's amazing is that none of the butterflies that make this amazing journey have ever been here before. The butterflies have nothing but instinct to guide them. Huell gets a special tour of this wonderful site from a Park Ranger, docents and a class from Cal Poly who studies the Monarchs.

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Huell’s off to Noriega’s Basque Restaurant in Bakersfield for wonderful food and stories.
Life in Death Valley
28:17
Huell explores the beauty and unexpected biodiversity of Death Valley.
Owens River
57:52
Huell travels to the Eastern Sierras with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP).
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Huell gets a tour of the Santa Barbara ranch home of President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
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