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California Condor
Eben McMillan
19 June 1969
opened at the front to his Naval, showed that the
warm weather of the interior was having its effects on Phil
who had been spending much time of late years doing archeological
work on the islands off the Santa Barbara Coast. Phil Orr
told me of finding the remains of a new species of
Condor in the diggings he is presently working at on
one of the Coastal Islands. This bird is much larger than
the Rancho la Brea Condor, he said. Mr. Orr said the group
that he was with, and headed by Supervisor Hansen, were all
camped two hours away near the foot of the Santa Ynez
Mts. I mentioned to Mr. Orr that by the time they got back
to camp over that hot, dusty, road they would need a good
drink of whiskey. To this Mr. Orr mentioned his fear that
there would be any whiskey left when they returned for he
said they had left two others in camp who probably had
all the whiskey consumed by then.
Supervisor Hansen seemed to have considerable difficulty
in getting more than two of his group to climb the steps up
to the balcony from where he was pointing out the Pabeg
area on ridge between Santa Barbara and Salisbury Potheros, as
well as the area on Sierra Madre Ridge where a gap had to
be filled in whereby automobile traffic could come on through to
Montgomery Pothero with no trouble. As it is now, only jeeps
and Trail Bikes can make this trip with, of course, four-
wheel vehicles included. They seemed more concerned with
seeking the shade under the lookout and talk of Condor.
Supervisor Hansen soon came down from the balcony and -