Page 107 Continued Tejon Ranch California Condor Eden McMillan 15 June '63 Dan Garcia Squirrel Poisoning and entered a canyon leading up into the Tahachapi Mts. In a cabin, in this canyon, we met [illegible] acquainted a long time ago, Mr. Dan Garcia was in charge of a Kern County Squirrel Poisoning that were poisoning the squirrels on the Tejon Ranch. Mr. Garcia is 60 years old and was born of parents who homesteaded in the Temblor Mountains and Carrisa Plains of East San Luis Obispo County in early days. Dan To manhood in the Carrisa Plains area spending most of early life riding after cattle throughout Eastern San Luis Obispo County. He told us that he never remembered seeing condors until he came to the Tejon Ranch about 12 years ago. He thought he had been where condors were before but only started noticing them on the Tejon Ranch due to people there talking about them and discussing them causing condors to become a matter of interest with him, as well as with most people on the Tejon Ranch. Dan Garcia has been doing the squirrel poisoning on Tejon Ranch for about 10 years. In 1954 he said unusually large numbers of carrion birds to feed on the squirrels that were dying or dead from the poison. He saw condors continually throughout the month or so that he poisoned squirrels on Tejon that summer - 13 condors was the largest number he saw together. He said the condors would show up early in the mornings to feed on the dead squirrels causing him to think they were remaining in the general area where the poisoning was going on. ample roost sites are available along the top and in the deep canyons of the Southern Tahachapi Mountains. Mr. Garcia has never observed ticks death condors while poisoning on Tejon Ranch. He has never observed condors on the southeast sl