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apache saddle
883
California Condor
Eben McMullin
11 September 1964
Tom Ingersall, employee of U.S. Forest Service who is camped
at Apache Saddle Saddle between Abel and Brush mountains Kern Co.,
described to us and showed us a photograph of, the flock of
20 Condor that he and aa his brother observed on the
San Emidio Ridge that runs southeast from Brush Mountain.
The black and white photo he showed us included 5 specks
that undoubtedly were Condor. These Condor were seen on
August 18, 1962.
Two representatives of the U.S. Forest Service who had
8 Condor - gone on top of Mt. Abel on 18 August 1964 to check
on lightning strikes of the previous night, Saw 8 Condor
that circled low over them, I am will be getting this
report from the Forest Service.
Tom Ingersall mentioned that a new directive
had just come to his attention that now makes it imperative
that all Condor sightings be turned in immediately
following the incident and not be held to the end of
the year and be turned in with an annual report as has
been the case in the past.
Tom Ingersall had heard that Bert Shedden had seen
20 Condor sometime in the past several years.
Even though Tom Ingersall is a well acquainted with
Bob Fischer, Game warden from Tift, he had never been told
of the Dead Condor Carcass behind hill Potvero, by him,
Peter Nigh, employee of the U.S. Forest Service who is
camped at Apache Saddle described how he had been—