California condor survey field notes, v1476
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over his area. Mr. Beazel had not seen condor from his Station in Lockwood Valley. At dusk, while cooking my supper at Thorn Meadows Camp, two young fellows from Burbank came in driving a Ford pickup with two new Honda Trail Bikes, in the back of the truck. They were very discouraged in that while entering the forest an inspection of their two Honda's proved they did not have proper spark arrestors attached. So the two machines were ordered left in the truck until proper mufflers should be attached, so long as they were in the National Forest. This caused these two young men to be somewhat sourly towards the Forest Service personnel as well as Governor Brown, who they accused of passing such a law on Trail Bikes. As darkness approached I overheard these two young fellows conversing about defending the Honda's, should anyone come to steal them in the night. They decided to sleep in their bed- bags close-by the pickup truck in order to safeguard the two Honda's. This campground being too crowded I drove back one half mile and rolled my bed in a draw one hundred feet from the road. Cars and pickups came and returned on this road all night. No shooting heard this evening.