California Condor- Eben McMillan 28 August 1963 I was in Bakersfield by 8:30 A.M. Stopped at Kern County Department of Agriculture to check with Ben Easley, who attends to the squirrel Poisoning in Kern County, to see about Bat Poisoning. He was out for the day. I stopped at the office of State Game Warden Clanton. He was not in. Opal Grimes secretary at the U.S. Forest Service Offices, told me they had no late records of condor that were sent in by the fire lookout Personnel in the Greenhorn district. Opal Grimes informed me she had not finished reading Kofords Life History of the California Condor and wished to that I had left with her two weeks ago, and wished to keep it a bit longer. To this I consented. At 12:00 noon I met Jack Jentzen in White Wolf Pass north of Arvin, Kern County, Calif., and found he had seen no condor; although he had been watching the Carcass of a heifer that had died north of the White Wolf Corners and been hauled to a ditch out of sights of the road and to which no condor, nor buzzards, had come to feed on. Jack Jentzen stands ready to help us in any way he can. He said the Heifers in the White Wolf area will start Calving the middle of October. I will keep a close watch on this area during that month. Jack Jentzen told me of the Tejon Ranch Company sending out a Notice to all employees advising them to carry Guns and Shoot all Skunks, foxes, Badgers, Coyotes and other Wild Mammals for the Protection of human lives, as A Skunk with hydrophobia was supposed to have been found in the Southern San Joaquin Valley area. Jentzen thought it foolish on the part of the Company to send out these Notices and get people afraid of everything wild. At the foot of the Rattlesnake Grade on the Rancheria Road I met John Rofer who had seen no Condor of late. Roger had been riding his Range that extends from the Rancheria Road over the ridge and down to the Kern River below Democrat Springs. This is all good Condor habitat and is a place where