844 Traging Hut. California Condor Eben McMillan 8 August 1964 Checked out a little buck deer even before I arrived at 7:50 A.M. told Hoots they had been coming to hunt on Frazier Mt. for Seven Years and this was the first time they had experienced Success. I drove to Chuchupate Ranger Station at 8:30 A.M. to find all forest service personnel on a standby emergency situation. A check station for the issuance of maps and Campfire permits was in force here also, and, the office at this station was buzzing with rumors and orders. I was told by the Secretary here that an estimate of hunter Numbers was to be compiled at 11:00 A.M. today and phoned into the main Office in Santa Barbara, who had given orders that such be done. We gained the impression here, after watching the feverish activities, that the working personnel of the U.S. Forest Service were completely bored with the whole affair and would rather be about their normal tasks, while the administrative personnel were gleefully anticipating the added revenue they could demand be spent in their district. Now substantiated that proof of so much use by the public was substantiated with this overflow crowd. While this was all going on the Secretary, at the office desk, was calling that a Game Warden be sent up Frazier Mountain to do something about a wounded doe deer that was dying near the roadway. At Chuchupate I met A.J. Reynolds, a Warden of the Calif. Fish and Game, who was employed as a Predator Trapper by the Calif. Fish and Game Commission in 1941 at the time Koford was doing research on Condor. A.J. Reynolds furnished Koford with many of his observations of Condor. He (Reynolds) told me of seeing-