California Condor Eben McMillian 4 June 1963 Jan came to my house at 5:20 A.M. and after loading our gear into my pickup we left at 5:30 A.M. for Fillmore, via Blackwell's corner - Taft - Cuyama and Ojai. The morning was clear and cool - we stopped for coffee at the White Rocks Cafe in the Sespe River drainage just as one stops the Coast Range and commences to descend the Sespe, from Cuyama Way. The proprietors of this White Rocks Cafe, Mr. and Mrs. Behrison told us of the great concentration of Deer Hunters that come into that area during the first week of Deer Season that usually commences in the early part of August each year. The Behrison Cafe is a modest little building of two rooms and a small kitchen that is, in no respect, modern in any sense of the word. The night before the deer season commences, hunters from all over Southern California flock into their place of business and continue to keep them, and the 2 extra helpers they hire during this first week of the deer season, busy 24 hours a day until this hunting crowd subsides at the end of the second weekend of the deer season. Mrs. Behrison stated that among this crowd of 5000 plus hunters who come into this upper Sespe area to hunt during the first of the deer season, there are a few good hunters who get their deer the first weekend and return to their homes, but that the great majority of these hunters are only out here to get away from their families, and get drunk, and generally have a wild time during their 7-8 or 9 days stay in the camps throughout the Sespe and Pine Mountain area. Mr. Behrison stated he knew of efforts to have the Forest Service develop homesites for sale in the upper Sespe drainage. He, Behrison, stated he would be against a development such as this even though it would bring him considerable more business. The Behrisons spoke of the mass of hunters shooting at everything that moves and lots that doesn't move. We drove on to Ojai where we stopped at the District