Frazier Mt. -continued- California Condor. Eben Mechillan August 1963 The man and the Two Children went up the stairs to the deck of the Lookout Station while the woman stayed and talked with me about the problems created by deer hunters in the National Forests. Both she and her husband felt that the greatest good could be derived by closing all National Forests to hunting. They thought that were there as much time and money spent on teaching the public the esthetic values of the National Forests as are spent on selling sporting goods and convincing the public of the values of hunting that more people would get more out of the use of their own lands with no problem involved whereby regimentation of the masses would be unnecessary, as is not the case with hunters. These people would work for doing away with all hunting were this necessary to safeguard the esthetic values of the National Forests. They left the area at 9:45 A.M. I maintained a constant vigil of the air over Frazier Mountain seeing nothing in the way of large soaring birds until 11:00 A.M. When a Condor was seen southwest of the Lookout Tower about one half mile away. When first seen, this Condor was rising in circles above the west ridge of the mountain rim. The swiftly rising air currents soon carried this bird two thousand feet or more above the top of Frazier Mountain from where it headed north in a flex glide, passing a bit as it passed To the west of the Lookout Tower. From where I was, as this Condor passed over head, I could see it was a young bird with bortled plumage on underside of wings, much similar to the plumage of the young bird I photographed and took points of in the San Juan River this spring. The Young Condor continued in a direct route northward as far as I could follow it with my 9 power glasses. It seemed to be holding its -