california Condor ben mcMillian 26 march-1963 after preparations, I left for Famosa and Points east. Passing down the Bitterwater Valley I saw Cattlemen shipping out their Stock from the Corrals across road from Fred Twisselmann Ranch. Other Cattle were being held and supplemented on hay in the hopes, I suppose, that rains will Come soon and rejuvinate the grasses that are now all but disappeared. The sheep in the Blackwells Corner-Lost Hills area are being fed Concentrates and roam throughout the area during the day, always on the move, searching for enough roughage to sustain themselves. I drove to the Sheep area to the east of Famosa that extends well into the foothills, mostly given way to Cattle operations as soon as the Oak belt is reached. I found this sheep range in as bad shape as Blackwells Corner-Lost Hills area. This area is more marginal due to the hills and Canyons, that being on a rather sharp angle, in places, has suffered unusual erosion in years past when this range has been badly trodden by sheep under the same conditions as it now faces. Holding the sheep on this range, after forage has diminished, waiting for the mountain ranges in the Sierra Nevada range to open up; this probably happens every spring when rains are scant here; which is probably not unusual. I passed through this sheep range and stopped at the Kern County Forest Service Fire Station at Woodie, Calif. Here I met Mr. Bill Easton, a native of this area and who knows Condor. He readily consented to send us records of his observations. In discussing Condor with over