California Condor Eben McMillan 12 February, 1964 at 2:00 p.m. Today Jan and I met with Mr. William Hansen, the present Supervisor of Las Padres National Forest, in his office in Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Hansen had called us to this meeting. Mr. Hansen came quickly to the point and the reason why he wanted to see us. It seems that, according to him, the local Santa Barbara Chapter of the Audubon Society and the Las Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club are strongly opposing the construction of a road along the Sierra Madre ridge that would open this area to public use as well as making firefighting in this area more efficient. So Mr. Hansen says, These two organizations are using the argument that the Sesquoc Condor Sanctuary, a very important facet in the preservation of Condor, would be nullified were this road to be constructed and the general public allowed in to use it. Mr. Hansen merely wanted a statement from us regarding our present findings relative to value of this sanctuary to Condor welfare. Of course he was told that, as yet, we had no definite findings on the association of this sanctuary to Condor welfare, and that until we completed the study we could not make a commitment in this regard. Jan did mention that were Mr. Hansen to make a formal written request to us in this matter that it would be taken up with the Director, or Directors, of the study for their approval. Mr. Hansen stated that he thought the lack of food to be the critical factor in the present welfare of Condor,