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California Condor
Eben McMillan
24 June 1964
The roles that were shown me by Lookout Calhoun, on
Frazier Mountain last fall spelled out these very same
features, excepting possibly, the matter of forwarding
the observations to the different Ranger Districts. This may
not have been done, in the past. But I feel sure the
information, should it have been properly recorded and
sent in to the Santa Barbara Office, would have been
available to any District Ranger who would have
cared enough about it to have gone to the trouble to
seek it out. What may I ask here, function does the
wildlife officer perform out of the Supervisory Office.
Should not this be his responsibility to see that
this sort of information should have been going
out all along? We discussed the feasibility of such a
program. One thing seems evident. First, Forest Service
personnel must be educated, within the range of Condor, that
being concerned regarding non-game wildlife must become
a reality and not a joke. This, before condor observations,
or any other condor welfare movements can be carried out.
We drove to Fillmore and to the home of [illegible] Miller,
the New Condor Warden who has replaced Jack Gains, [illegible]
Warden Miller lives on road that passes up
west side of Sespe River from Fillmore. His house sits near
this road and is about 1/2 mile short of entering the
Sespe Gorge, or the end of public travel on this road. Mr.
Miller was washing his pickup truck belonging to U.S.
Forest Service - I mentioned that he sure was -