California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eban Mcmillan 25 april 1964 and here they left the Truck Parked even though Mrs. Reyes had warned them repeatedly to be sure and return the truck to the same place it had been when they first took it. This these men did not do. Instead, they left the truck near where their Jeep had been stalled when running out of gasoline, and driving to the locked gate at the Reyes Ranch in Santa Barbara Canyon and there unlocking this gate, with a key they had obtained from the Forest Service Office in Cuyama that morning, and passing on through this gate drove on down the roadway towards Cuyama Valley, Ranger Morse, upon finding his man did not go with those men to their Jeep to get the licence Number of this vehicle, called Mrs. Reyes instructing her to get the licence Number of this Jeep when it passed her Ranch. As the two men passed Mrs. Reyes home, having already driven through the locked gate, Mrs. Reyes instructed her son, Freddie Reyes, to follow the men below her ranch and let them through the cattle guard that prevents automobiles from passing by having a padlocked cable stretched across it. Freddie Reyes following the Two men in the Jeep arrived at their sight of the locked cattle guard just in time to see these two men drive their Jeep under this cable and continue on down Santa Barbara Canyon without anyone having their licence Number.