California condor survey field notes, v1477
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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 -