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check Mr. Morris Secretary's name
Anyama
California Condor
Eben McMillan
24 april 1964
was over-run with Stranded campers. It seems that a very
heavy snow fall at the higher elevations and the weather turned quite
cold. One man froze to death who with his companion, had
become stalled on their [illegible] Bikes and in trying to walk out
the one had become exhausted and being left by his partner
who went on ahead for help, was found frozen stiff when
help came for him early the next morning.
Ranger Morse stated that the lookout on McPherson Peak had observed
few if any Condor last year. He thought the Condor movement pattern
had shifted so that old established flight [illegible] routes were no
longer being used. He thought this showed up in the numerous sightings
from Coyama Peak Lookout last year.
Ranger Morse evidently had formally recorded two nesting
observations of Condor, one of which came from Helen Theirs
who is secretary to Mr. Morse. She said that a Condor Nest site
was on the east side of the Coyama valley across from where
she likes near the mouth of Tinta Canyon. The absurdity of this
statement demanded no further discussion of the matter in order to
save this lady from embarrassment. We got keys from Ranger Morse
in order to go to Big Pine Mountain and left Coyama at 12:10 p.m.
We drove west from Coyama and then took foothill road that
runs south through farm fields, stopping at length with the shepherd
Julian who was camped about one mile west of Old Coyama, and
who told us of seeing four Condor feeding on a dead sheep about
one mile to the northwest of where he now camped and about
ten days or two weeks ago. He pointed out the place where he had
been camped at the time he saw the four Condor and told us -