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California Condor
Eben J. McMillan
8 August 1964
these lands managed for the best interests of all involved.
Bud Doan said 341 cars had been lined up to pass on
Top of Hunter Frazier Mountain at 4:30 AM. Doan also
Told me of seeing 2 Condor at head of Lion Canyon on Steira
Madre Ridge, on 5 May 1963. These Condor circled low
above the road grader he was operating at the time. Doan
thinks People are opposing the Steira Madre Ridge Road on
the grounds that Automobiles will frighten the Condor. Doan
thinks Condor have little fear of machinery or automobiles
for in 1950 or 1951, when he was grading the roadaway
from Rose valley out to Nordoff Peak, on three separate
occasions Condor came and circled low over his Grader.
I drove to top of Frazier Mountain and left my pickup
in the shade of a Pine near the Lookout. Charles and Hazel
Upham are manning the Lookout on Frazier, they coming here
from Stutz Cafe in the Guayama Valley where they have been
for three or four years. They have been seeing Condor nearly
every day since they have been stationed here. They came to the
Lookout on 23 July 1964 - Mrs. Upham gave me a listing of Condor
observations that had been turned in from Frazier Mountain Lookout
station since 29 May 1964. These are as follows -
5/29/64 - time 0830 - one - over Vic of Highway 99
6/1/64 - " 1300 - ONE - Flying E. over Piru Creek
6/23/64 - " 1105 - one - Soaring Cobblestone Int. area and N. Sespe
7/1/64 - " 1300 - one - Flying E. Edge of Forest - S.
Flying N.E. towards Tahachapi.
7/4/64 - " 1220 - one - Attacking crashed oak labor
7/7/64 - " 1950 - two - Circling high E. of Lebec
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