California Condor Eben Dacmillan 17 December 1963 Audubon Society, in which the problem of Tote Gote or Trail vehicular traffic in the Sespe Wildlife area was brought out and much concern registered by Mr. Metcalf and his group regarding the fact that the Forest Service Ranger who is in charge of the surveillance of the Condor nesting grounds is on the lukewarm pay-roll of the Harter Ranch Supply Co. of Fillmore, California, which sells Tote Gotes and has other business interests in the area, including a grazing allotment on the sanctuary, which the same Ranger has the duty of Supervising. Quite naturally the reading of this letter produced a great deal of concern with Mr. Dolman, he evidently knowing that I must be so and that all parties present, excepting he and Mr. Dasman were aware of the subject matter in this letter, for he at no time questioned me or I regarding the validity of the accusations in this letter, although he knew we had spent a great deal of time in that area and would be thoroughly aggravated with anything of this kind that went on. He did not ask nor did we offer any information on the matter. We did, Nevertheless, assure all present that the matter would be gone into immediately. Carl Buckheister registered great concern in this matter for it, coming from one of his own branch societies, was somewhat of an indictment of the parent Audubon Society in its handling of the Condor preservation program in the Sespe Wildlife Refuge, especially after Sandy Sprunt has spent a good deal of time on the refuge in company with Mr. Jack Gains within the last Two Years and Mr. Paul Howard of the El Monte center of Audubon is known to have been closely associated with Mr. Gains for some time. Mr. Buckheister made this fact known and admonished other members