California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 25 april 1964 Mrs. Reyes then told us how the man, who was doing the brush clearing with his Bulldozer near Salisbury Potrero, when arriving on the ground to so at his work found his tuck missing and returning to the Reyes Ranch was much worried as to its whereabouts. Upon being filled in on happenings of the day previous he returned and after bunting for some time found his truck several miles from where he had formally left it, at a location the two Trespassers had left it after returning to their Jeep with the Gasoline. Mrs. Reyes is of the opinion that the two men who trespassed on primitive area, took another automobile or truck, without authorization of the owner and took Gasoline from Mrs. Reyes without Paying generally disturbed the General area, had been fined in Court. It will be interesting to see how this episode actually turned out. One thing is sure, [illegible] One can easily see why Mrs. Reyes would not be in favor of seeing the Sierra Madre Ridge Road becoming a general Public thoroughfare. We returned home via Taft and Blackwells Corner. From South Bellridge to Blackwells Corner great numbers of Antelope Ground squirrels were observed feeding from the grasses that still remain green along the edges of the highway Right- of-way, most of these Ground squirrels were immatures. Between South and North Bellridge Oil fields, a distance of about five miles, the numbers of these squirrels was estimated at more than Twenty per hundred feet of Roadway.