California condor survey field notes, v1477
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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 -