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california Condor Eben Mcmillan 25 april 1964
Several Raven Passed Over Our heads as they played
about over the Sisquoc Valley. One Turkey Buzzard
Came up out of Sisquoc River gorge and sailed
out eastward Towards the Goyama Valley. After Lunch
we hiked back to our pickup on top of the ridge and
drove to Santa Barbara Canyon Ranch of Gertrude Reyes.
Mrs. Reyes was much disturbed regarding promotion of a,
forthcoming, or planned, Sierra Madre Roadway that would traverse
the crest of the sierra madre ridge from Santa Barbara Potrero
to Miranda Pines on the Northwest end of Sierra Madre Ridge.
Entrance to this roadway, from the south, would be through
Santa Barbara Canyon therefore passing through the yard of Mrs.
Reyes whose home and buildings are situated in a narrow
part of the canyon where a roadway would have to pass
within 100 feet of Mrs. Reyes home. She was also worried
about running Cattle on Santa Barbara-Salisbury and Montgomery
Potreros where in the past she has experienced many Problems
With unauthorized trespassers disturbing and exciting the
cattle she Pastures on these Potreros during the late spring
and Summer months. Last Quail season, or during a weekend
in Either November or December, Mrs. Reyes was put to a great
amount of inconvenience by two hunters who came through
or Under the chain that the Forest Service has placed South
of Big Pine Mountain to prevent automotive or vehicular
traffic beyond this point into the San Rafael Primitive
area. These men were in a Jeep and Continued on through
the primitive area and out along Sierra Madre Ridge where: