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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