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California Condor
Eben McMillan
8 august 1964
a met Bud Doan who normally handles heavy equipment for
the U.S. Forest Service but who had been pressed into Patrol
duty and had spent last night guarding a barricade just
past Upper Hunter Overflow Camp near where the road forks, one
going to the right towards West Frazier and the Lookout Tower,
while the other went left towards NE Frazier mountain. Bud
Doan told me the barricade had been set up the afternoon of
August 7 in order to prevent hunters from going on top of Frazier
Mountain to sleep overnight, and in so doing, increase the chances
of a forest fire setting started. Forest Service plans were to open
the barricade at 5:30 A.M., but the pressure exerted by
hunters who gathered after midnight to go atop Frazier
Mountain, forced the Forest Service to open the Barricade
at 4:30 A.M.
Bud Doan had the carcass of a spike buck deer which
had been shot near the road beyond Hunter Overflow Camp
in the back of his pickup truck. He said the deer had been
reported to him by a hunter early in the morning. When he went
to set the spike deer, he found it propped up among rocks
as though it was alive. Doan said he despised deer
hunters. Their only interest in the outdoors, he thought,
was to kill or destroy something alive. He thought that
were hunting not allowed in the forest lands a much better
class of people would come to share the pleasures of the
outdoors, while their interests would cultivate the ignorant
whereby a better type of people would develop who would
guard and appreciate the forest lands and work to see