p.161 Continued- Breckenridge California Condor Eben McMillan 9 July 1963 settlement would present to Condor would be difficult to assess, we know it couldn't help them in any way. Continuing on down the Westside Breckenridge Road we passed out of the Pine timber and into Oak-Chaparral country. A man by name of Si was working on a cattle trough. Stopped and asked about Condor. He knew Condor and he had not seen Condor for many years. In former years said these birds used to come to a little valley across the mountain to the north of Walker Basin and feed on mice and kangaroo rats that frequented this meadow. This man Si, used his arm and hand to show how Condor would snap up the rats. I am wondering if this observation of this man Si, did not have something to do with the squirrel poisoning operations that were in operation probably about that time. Si thought Condor came into the Breckenridge mountain area about the first of August. Si had not heard of, nor seen a dead Condor. He thinks they are now about all gone. Continuing on down this Breckenridge Road we went out the Oak and Chaparral association into an open grassland made up of high ridges and deep canyons. This is a sheep country, and their marks can be seen everywhere. In storage still remains on these hills. It is a place we will watch in early spring when the sheep return. Following this Breckenridge Road on west we came to a road that would take us down to the Kern River highway until coming out at the mouth of Kern River where it leaves the mountains. We then drove up Kern River- Crossed to west side of Isabella Lake - took highway the road from Woofford heights up over Greenhorn summit and down to Fulton Guard Station in the Fulton Creek drainage of Poso Creek. Here we met Mr. and Mrs. Hal Seyden. He is a timber cruiser for the Forest Service and where he does not know Condor.