Audrey Pope, 68, and her husband, Brian, 69, of Santa Ana, stare up at the pine trees across Big Bear Lake to get a glimpse of resident eagles Jackie and Shadow. Friends, colleagues and eagle enthusiasts gathered in Big Bear to celebrate the life of Sandy Steers, the late conservation advocate behind the Jackie and Shadow nest cam. Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit she led, is racing to raise millions to stop a housing development in what it says is the eagles’ hunting and feeding area.
Audrey Pope, 68, and her husband, Brian, 69, of Santa Ana, stare up at the pine trees across Big Bear Lake to get a glimpse of resident eagles Jackie and Shadow.
Friends, colleagues and eagle enthusiasts gathered in Big Bear to celebrate the life of Sandy Steers, the late conservation advocate behind the Jackie and Shadow nest cam. Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit she led, is racing to raise millions to stop a housing development in what it says is the eagles’ hunting and feeding area.
A bird with a striking wingspan swoops down into a towering Jeffrey pine tree and below, cheers erupt on a pontoon boat idling on Big Bear Lake. These watchers, including staff and volunteers with Friends of Big Bear Valley, are about to gather to honor Sandy Steers, the nonprofit’s late executive director and the force behind its nest cam.
On Saturday, about 100 people came together at Big Bear’s Veterans Park for Steers’ memorial, as the nearby lake glittered and swallows weaved through blue skies. Recordings of the event have more than 53,000 views. More than a dozen speakers reflected on the multifaceted Steers, a biologist: She took race car driving lessons, worked for NASA and, most notably, turned a pair of unassuming eagles into an international phenomenon.
Scott Geiger of Apple Valley peers through binoculars to see Jackie and Shadow from a viewing point at Dana Point Park on Friday. Friends of Big Bear Valley, which all these years later Shelley Egan, one of two interim executive directors replacing Steers, called her predecessor ‘a Disney princess,’ has raised more than $3.3 million to date, largely through small donations. Steers willed $50,000 to the cause.
If all goes according to plan, the San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust will conserve the roughly 63 acres, with the possibility of transferring it to the U.S. Forest Service. Steve Foulkes, a vice president for RCK, confirmed the land trust has the option to buy the site for $10 million by July 31
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