Page 122 Continued Sierra Madre Ridge Sisquoc. California Condor Eben McMillan 21 June 1963 area opposed his orders that livestock be withdrawn from the U.S. forest range during the winter months, but that they had now come to recognize this edict as a beneficial action. We unloaded the horses at the windmill and water tank on Salisbury [illegible] where Ranger Norris had a pack mule and three saddlehorses for he and two of the other men, Mr. Marshall having brought his own horse in a trailer behind Ranger Norris's trailer. The mule was packed with bedding, fishing rods—food for all of us, and we took to the trail for Southfork Guard Station, on Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, 9am and carrying our bedrolls and clothing behind our own saddles. We paid our share of food. As we proceeded down the trail towards Southfork Camp, Ranger Norris told me that the reason for his bringing the other three fellows on this trip was to acquaint them with the projected changes in the boundary of the [illegible] Wild Area that will extend the Northeast boundary of this Wild up out of the bottom of the Sisquoc River proper to a point about one-half mile Northeast along an zigzag line from Point of the prominent landmarks along the west slopes of the Sierra Madre Mountains in this area. This would give Wilder status to all of the main canyon bottom of the Sisquoc River. We all stopped for lunch among some rocks on the ridge between Sweetwater and Foresters Leap Canyons. It was while we were eating lunch that Ranger Norris told us of plans he had submitted that would open the road from Bates Ridge at the Northwest end of the main Mt. Mass on the Southwest side of Coyama Valley through to Santa Barbara Canyon. The development of the cleared brush areas would no longer necessitate holding the west slope of the top of Sierra Madre Range, along and to the Northeast of Sisquoc River, in a fire closure area and would