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California Condor
Eben McMillan
1 June 1964
of Kern County, will review the case and should they
feel there is ample evidence for a conviction they
will continue the case and ask for a prosecution of
Mr. Binkley on the grounds that he committed an
unlawful act by shooting at the condor. With this
last word of advice I was left to myself, whereby
I left the District Attorney's Office and joined Mrs.
McMillan for lunch.
At Chuchupate Ranger Station, District Ranger.
Gary Plisco informed me, when he first met, of reading
about the Condor Shooting Incident in the Newspaper.
I asked if he had been alerted that the condor had
been wounded and would probably die, thereby making
it important that all forest service personnel be on
the lookout for the remains of a dead condor, or any
condor alive, that might appear suspicious by its
acting as if it had a broken leg or sick in any way,
to which question he answered that the Newspaper article was his only information.
Mr. Plisco said he had a report from Frazier Mountain Lookout
last weekend whereby the lookout there had recorded seeing a
Condor going down somewhere to the east of the Lookout.
Mr. Plisco said an alert had gone out that this Condor had gone
down and that Warden Knolls of Fillmore was supposed
to be organizing a search party to hunt for this
Condor that had gone down. Plisco understood that the Condor
in question had fallen from a flock of other Condor that were
circling somewhere near the Frazier Mountain Lookout. Gary
Plisco said that one of his men had been informed of -