California Condor Eben McMillan 20 June 1963 Ian came at 4:00 p.m. with pickup, trailer and two horses. I loaded in my saddle and camp gear and we rolled down Bitterwater and around through Taft, Maricopa arriving at Coyama Valley Kentucopa, U.S. Forest Service Station about 7:30 p.m., Mr. Flance - who officiates this station showed us where to put our horses for the night as well as giving us all information necessary to our stay in the bunkhouse tonight. We cooked our supper, chatted with the fellows whose job it is to grade all forest service roads in the Las Padres Forest and who had just been over the road from Los Prietos Ranger Station, past Little Pine and Big Pine Mountains and on to Santa Barbara Canyon where they are now presently working. These fellows told us of having seen Three Bear on their trip through the mountains just described, and that they had seen no large birds and few deer. They said that many Trail Bikes or Tete-gates had been using the road they worked on as they could see their trucks, made over the rockends, when they returned to work on Monday morning. They said many of these trail- bikes would leave the roads to go about the area when the landscape permitted leaving the road. These men also said they worked by themselves when on road construction, seldom seeing any officials of the forest service and remaining in the forest camps along the route except when going in to Santa Barbara on weekends. One of the cabins in which they were camped when working this road was broken into during their absence on a weekend, and several items of canned food and Groceries they had left in this cabin were taken by this person or persons who entered the cabin by reaching through a broken window pane and thereby unlocking the window, entering the cabin by stepping through the window onto one of the road crews beds and leaving by the same route.