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California Condor
Eben Mcmillan
26 November 1963
a result of my developed concern for condor. If we are
to have condor someone must make a sacrifice of that, which
he already enjoys too much of to appreciate. Our job today is
to hold the line in the hopes that new minds, now in the
making, will acknowledge these things as responsibilities
and place them before conquest, and privilege. Were this type of
thinking ever to gain favor, man might step from the jungle far
sooner than is now thought possible. Thus we must save!
I must look into the minds of these Santa Barbara Museum
people more fully, and find from whence this philosophy comes.
We stopped at the home of Fred Eissler, whom I informed
of the coming Sandhill Crane trip to the Carrissa plains on 7 December
1963 and sponsored by the Paso Robles Audubon Society. Eissler's Sierra
club group want to accompany us and had asked that I
inform them, but he told us this evening that his group
had planned some trip in the Sierra Madre Ridge area
to work on some plans they have in mind there. Mr.
Eissler was interested in our condor work as he said
he had been notified of the project when it began from
Mr. William [illegible] Hansen, supervisor of Los Padres [illegible]
National Forest. Actually we have little information for public consumption.
what material we have gathered so far has never been formulated,
and evaluated, so that trends, that [illegible] are appearing, could
turn out to have been mis-applied observations that will later
reverse themselves. So that we feel it best to keep all information
in abeyance until completion of the study.