to suit his needs without worrying about the adverse consequences his actions may have on the ecology a given area. He thinks brush-burning can be carried out in most areas with greater production resulting in both grass forage and better groundwater. He ridiculed the thinking of the Forest Service that brushlands conserve water. "Why it's silly," he stated, "to think that brush conserves water when all the time it is using up water as fast as it is available. When a wet winter and more water is available the brush species has more growth, thereby using up all the extra water. I make note of Mr. Melendy's thinking in this in that it is the same held by those whose activities would leave nothing for Condor to survive in. On. I would term this thinking of Melendy's as being that of exploitation with little thought of ecological factors involved. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to follow his approach to Condor preservation and the philosophy accompanying act of saving a vanishing species.