California condor survey field notes, v1477
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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