California Condor Eben McMillan 22 march - 1963 It threatened rain throughout the night, but none fell, and we drove to springville via the foothills, from Three Rivers, arriving there via the Yokohl Valley Road, at 9:15 a.m. We chatted with the U.S. Forest Service personnel in the springville office without getting much information. With their directions we went to the home of Donald (Dode) Sutch, a longtime native of the Tule River region, and a person from whom we had purchased Redwood fence posts when we came with Carl Koford to see the Condor Nest in the Redwood Tree many years ago. Mr. Sutch spends most of the summer months on the Tule Indian Reservation working for a lumber company, in which occupation he hires and works many Indians native to the reservation. Mr. Sutch, or some of the people he works with, sees Condors at times every summer. He will either phone us or drop us a card if he sees Condors at any time. Donald Sutch knew an Indian who years ago killed a Condor and chopped its wings separate from its body and tacked them on the wall of a shed near his cabin. Sutch claimed to have seen them and that those wings alone spanned 13 1/2" x 12" redwood boards. This would have to have been a space covered of near 12 feet. For allowing for the boards to shrink, they, counting the gap left between them would have been at least 1/2 inches covered to the board. Donald Sutch spoke of seeing 7 or 8 birds together at times - This corresponds to Layton Hicks seeing 6 or 7 birds together. Mr. Sutch thought Condors stayed in the Redwood belt at or near the 6500 ft. elevation— over, cont.