california Condor Eben Mcmillan 9 august 1963 At 2:15 A.m. an automobile, with lights on, stopped on the old 46b highway about one quarter mile from where I had Camped, and commenced shooting some light caliber Gun. I could not make out what was being shot at but did see Two people moving but in about in the beam of the lights. after shooting 12 or 15 times the car moved on. At 2:45 A.m. headed another automobile heading Towards Bakersfield, the car earlier had been traveling Eastward, Stopped Near where another car had stopped earlier and shot several time from a small caliber rifle. Again two people were seen in the beam of the headlights. at about 2:50 A.m. this car left in the direction of Bakersfield. The day dawned fair and cool. I was at the home of John Rofe, in Gildale, at 7:05 a.m. where I followed him to the ranch property of his family that is situated in the drainage of the Poso Creek and in the foothill area known as Ranchevia about 15 miles to the Northeast of Bakersfield. Mr. Rofe opened locked gates and introduced me to the ranch properties on which he runs cattle, and over which, last week, he saw two Condor on two separate days. John Rofe showed me the Mesa on which Dr. Elliot McClure had photographed 13 Condor about 14 years ago, and also the general area where some 18 years Rofe had seen 26 Condor feeding on a dead Cow. John Rofe has not seen any sizable groups of Condor in the last Ten years. He had no recollection of ever having seen a dead Condor. We thinks the deer population throughout the Grass-Oak Woodland areas of the West Sierra Nevada country would reach an average of six to to the section. He finds dead fawn deer quite regularly and buck deer also. These deer having died during month when hunting could not be blamed - six deer to the Section would.