California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Eben Friedman 25 November 1963 Roadway. In some of the defiles leading down from the burn this aggregate had chocked the drainages whereby it had accumulated on the roadway to a depth of four feet as was evidenced by the bank left at the mouth of these defiles on the upper, or bank side, of the roadway, when the bulldozer had cleaned all this material from the roadway and pushed it off into the canyon below. Little or no aggregate had been washed down defiles or draws that came from areas above the roadway where the fire had not burned. As we topped the ridge before dropping down on the roadway, into Tar Canyon, we met two youths of their late teens or early twenties, who were parked in an old model car on the wide strip that has been so constructed, whereby, large vehicles could pass at this spot, or could car park to let other vehicles pass. We asked if they knew Jack Garis or had seen him up this way. They said they did not know Mr. Garis nor had they seen anyone in a Forest Service vehicle on this road. Upon being asked if they were hunting the young fellow at the wheel of this old model car told us that they were just "plinking". By, plinking, we assumed he meant shooting at nothing in particular. We then asked him if it was [illegible], and permissible for us to shoot anywhere up this road and were told, by the lad at the wheel of the car, that as far as he knew that it was Oiler. Both said they were from Fillmore. I asked them if deer season was still open and they replied that they didn't know, but that archery season was probably still open. Neither of these young fellows mentioned having any knowledge of the Condor refuge. Before meeting the two young fellows mentioned above, we had stopped at the Oak Flats Camp of U.S. Forest Service in the Sespe drainage and there came upon Jack Edwards and Red Dunlap of the Twilight Oil Company that