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California Condor Survey Eben McMillan 13 June 1963
Lightening and Thunder in the distance most of the night,
and several light showers of rain fell. We were up
at 6:00 A.M. The air was clear, crisp, and some
clouds and fog was about the Segge area. We
watched for Condor from the Squaw Flat Oil Well
Sight until 8:40 A.M. When we left for Ojai,
arriving there at 10:00 A.M. only to find out
Ranger Parkinson was not in so we drove on to
Santa Barbara and met Clem Crouch in his
office there-Superintendent Hansen not being in
his office today. Mr. Crouch was in good
spirits and we enjoyed a productive meeting with
him- It was agreed with Mr. Crouch that we would
wait until Dr. Koford came and the exact date
of our going into the Condor Refuge with him
known, it would then be that we would call Mr.
Crouch, who in turn would have all things
in order that we could go into the Refuge with
Dr. Koford for purposes of getting Dr. Koford's
reaction to different aspects important
to Condor welfare as well as documenting the
Changes that had taken place since Dr. Koford
worked in this area, on the former Condor Study,
Mr. Crouch thought Dr. Koford's Coming and
Going into the Refuge to be a good thing.
Mr. Crouch stated that it would be best if we took up
the matter of getting a key to the Santa Ynez area
with Ranger Parkinson at Ojai, matters such as
Tone Coetz—history of Sheep Pasturage on the
South Section of Las Padres National Forest—
Poison Woods—were discussed—Mr. Crouch also felt
that most Personnel of the Forest Service felt the
Condor Warden Job to be the Lowest one Could