California Condor Eben McMillan 17 December 1963 Ian and I were at breakfast with Bill Goodall at 8:00 A.M. At 9:30 A.M. the three of us hiked from our hotel to the U.S. Government Building about 8 blocks distance and met Carl Buckheitser and Allen H. Miller at 10:00 A.M. and immediately entered the office of Everett Dolman who is Wildlife and Range Technician for the U.S. Forest Service in the California area. Mr. Dolman then called in his assistant Mr. William Dasman and the seven of us were in conference until 1:00 P.M. At the conception of the Sespe Wildlife Refuge in the early 1940's as a means of guiding the efforts of the U.S. Forest Service in any further changes, developments, relative to management of this refuge and other activities relative to the welfare of Condor, a three man advisory committee was set up that would comprised of The Director of the University of California, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology — the President of the National Audubon Society and the representative of the U.S. Forest Service whose office would be that which Mr. Everett Dolman now holds. These three persons were to act in an advisory capacity to the District Superintendent of the Los Padres National Forest in any matters relative to the welfare of Condor, or the Sespe Wildlife area, and no activity was to be in this Sespe Wildlife area with the matter first coming before this committee for their appraisal. This, as far as could be ascertained, was the first meeting ever held by this Committee as well as the first time it had ever concerned itself with the matters it was set up to do. All members of this Committee made note of this devolution and each assumed equal share in not having maintained more vigilance toward the responsibility inherited with this appointment — with this noted the meeting began —