California Condor Eben McMillan 1 august/1963 on the antelope side of Tajon Ranch, we heard the report of a rifle in the general vicinity of the White Oak lodge. Mr. Melendy thought the shot to be fired by some individual who was practicing for deer season. In that deer season does not open in the Eastern hills of Yerim County for more than a month now, it would seem likely this was the case. We saw an adult Golden Eagle flying high to the East and North of where we ate lunch. Another Golden Eagle was observed sitting in an Oak tree near the ranch road over which we passed enroute to the Antelope Valley side of the mountains. Predators Henry Melendy seems quite concerned about the way predatory animals are indiscriminately destroyed. I feel certain he will be favorable to some thoughtfulness towards large birds such as Eagles and Condor and, in fact, may develop into a Champion for the rights of these birds to survive. I will renew this association with Mr. Melendy from two times. He is now in hopes I can let him have the Photograph of a Condor with which he could better become acquainted with the bird in identification if should the opportunity come his ways. This I will do in the near future. Henry Melendy came to the El Tajon Ranch Company from a position of Farm Advisor in the Yuesno area. He is a graduate of University of California at Davis and the University of Idaho where he took a course in Forestry according him—the philosophy taught by the Agronomy department at U.C. at Davis and the Forestry department at the Vired Idaho are diametrically opposite to one another—Melendy leans towards the Agronomy way of thinking. That Nature is not as complex as Forestry would like to make one think and that man can modify most environments—