California condor survey field notes, v1476
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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.