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California Condor-
5 June 1963
At this meeting in his home Jack Gains also re-stated
what he told me over the Telephone last week that he had
been on Hopper Rim Road with the Audubon Staff and
their families on Memorial Day and although they
had remained throughout the day in the general area
of Lofords Lookout Point they had seen no Condor
due to the fog that persisted while they were there.
Mr. Gains mentioned that his wife had been sunburned
on her shoulders on Hopper Rim that day - even
though it was foggy and cool. Jan and I saw
the signs of where this group had spent Memorial
day on Hopper Rim in the area of Lofords Lookout
Point, a memorial day, as we passed that way on
foot Yesterday, and the day before Yesterday.
Jack Gains also stated to us, in our meeting today,
that a group from the Golden Gate Audubon Society,
who had camped at Cow Springs Campground in
the Corridor through the Condor Refuge, over the
Memorial Day weekends, had told him, when he
Saturday June
went to Cow Springs Campground on [illegible]
that they had observed 15 Condor circle over
that area.
Castaic Jct.
Jan and I drove to [illegible] where we went to the
deep pit of the Newhall Land and Cattle Company's Feed
lot and saw 10 plus Turkey Buzzards feeding and
perched on the ground about the pit where dead
cattle from the feed lot are dumped - we looked for
signs of Condor, but found none.
We drove North to [illegible] Lebec - Lunches, passed the Pickup
Station of the
U.S. Forest Service where we met and talked with Ranger
Jack Williams who told us of seeing two Condor circle
and disappear into a rocky mountainside that is