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California Condor
Eben McMillan
25 april 1964
they hunted Quail until running out of gasoline. These
Two men then hiked to a place near Salisbury Potrero
and took a truck belonging to a man who was doing
brush clearing for the U.S. Forest Service with his Bulldozer
and drove this truck to the locked gate in Santa Barbara
Canyon that is Near the Reyes Ranch. Here they left the
truck they had taken Without permission of the Owner and
hiked the short distance to Mrs. Reyes house where after
awakening her they were allowed to remain overnight
in a house trailer Mrs. Reyes had at her Ranch. This was
about midnight. In the morning Mrs. Reyes phoned
Ranger Morse in Cuyama who came and took the two
men back to Cuyama Ranger Station where he told them,
in the presence of Gertrude Reyes, he was going to cite
them for trespass, for when asked by Ranger Morse how
they got by the Chain across the Roadway south of Big
Pine Lookout, they admitted having driven their Jeep under this
Chain. Mrs. Reyes said that Morse took these Two men and
left her Ranch heading for Cuyama. Later they were
returned to her Ranch by an assistant of Ranger Morse,
who although being supposed to follow these Two men onto
the Sierra Madre Ridge to where their Jeep was and there get
the Licence Number of this Jeep. However the Forest Service
assistant left the two men at the Reyes Ranch and
he returned to Cuyama. The two men then borrowed gas-
oline from Mrs. Reyes and returned to their Jeep in
the Truck they had taken Without authorization -