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California Condor
Eben Mcmillan
24 June 1964
been Pressed by Numerous Interests, even from the Santa Barbara
Office of the U.S. Forest Service, for information on Condor findings,
but it must be understood that what information we Search Out
in this study, Cannot be made Public, Not given to any
individual until all information is in and Compiled. such
information will then be made available to anyone who
wishes it.
Before continuing on South, we drove to Goleta, where we
looked up Rex Kerr who works for Santa Barbara County
Fire Department, and who is the person that AL MARTIN
of Cuyama Fire Station told me had taken the Polaroid
photos of the Condor Carcass that we picked up one mile
south of Cuyama Pumper Station on 15 June 1964, when it hung
on the fence. We found Mr. Kerr on duty. He promised to look through
his pictures and see if he still had the Condor photo as well as the
photo of an Eagle that Mr. Kerr said had been electrocuted
on high power lines in the Cuyama Valley some years ago, and
which measured 80 inches from tip to tip of its wings. We told
Mr. Kerr we would stop by the next time we were through
Goleta and see if he had found the pictures which we very
much wanted.
From Goleta we returned to Santa Barbara where Ian chatted
with Mr. William Hansen while I drove about trying to find a parking
place. We obtained a five-permit from Mr. Hansen and informed him,
as we always have done some official of the Forest Service, when he
intend going into the Condor Refuge to work. Ian said Mr.
Hansen was in very good spirits.