California Condor Eben McMillan 6 - June 1963 It was still damp and cloudy when we arose at 6:15 A.M.. Fog had lifted and it looked like rain. Left Perley Ranch at 7:45 A.M. and were at mouth of Hopper canyon by 8:30 A.M. Chatted with Eugene Percy, at whose overnight Cabin we stopped to leave the key to his Mountain Ranch Gate. Mr. Percy told us that in the years when Koford was working in the Hopper mountain area that the brush was not near as thick as it is now and that in those days ONE could walk his way about through it in most places. He also told us that the trail we had checked out was the Old Forest Service Trail that went into the creek about 200 yards below the Hole-in-the-Wall - He, Percy, had packed fish into that creek in Years Past. Mr. Percy also told us that a small fire had burned the area of about 70 or 80 acres in 1946, in the Condor Refuge at a point to the east of where the Spring Canyon Trail hits the top of Hopper Rim - Otherwise no fire had burned in the Refuge since 1927. In that year the whole area of the Hopper Canyon drainage burned. We went to the home of Jack Gains at 9:30 A.M. Mr. Gains was at home. We talked with him about the new dam on the Sespe. He told us that Politics was holding up final approval of Plans for the Dam and he seemed to be very much in favor of seeing it Completed in the utmost haste. We asked Mr. Gains if he had a map in his care that showed actual locations of all Condor Nests that have been located within the Condor Refuge area - He said that he had such a map in his possession. Mr. Gains did not offer to show us this map, nor did he mention how we should