California Condor Eben McMillan 29 August 1963 I Camped last night at Davis Campground on Greenhorn Mountain. Before going to bed last evening I talked to three of the fire crew who are stationed at this camp. Two of them had seen Condor while visiting Helen King at the Oak Flat Lookout one day several weeks ago. They only knew of Condor through Helen King and without this information would not know such a bird existed. Davis It was cold last night at Davis Campground. I was at the intake Luke where Southern California Edison Company diverts the water from Kern River along the mountainside whereby it can be used to drop through Penstocks to turn the hydro-electric turbines of the Powerhouse 8 or 10 miles above Kernville on Kern River, at 9:15 A.M. Mrs. Lila Lofberg lives near this intake and she has been noted for her interest in the outdoors, having written papers on the behaviour of Coyotes in winter, and also the author of a book called Sierra Outpost. Mrs. Lofberg, although spending the greater part of her 65 plus years in the Kern River and High Sierra Country, has never seen a Condor. Nor has she ever talked to anyone who has seen Condor in the Kern River area. Mrs. Lofberg thought the personnel of the U.S. Forest Service in Kernville could help me. She told me of an article that appeared some years ago in the Bulletin of the Southern California Edison Company, that carried a photograph of two employees of the Edison Company holding a stretched out Condor that they had found in the [illegible] Lobo area. The bird, according to the account had become gorged with carrion and being unable to get off the ground was caught and photographed by the two employees. An article also accompanied the photograph. Mrs. Lofberg will try to locate and send the article to me. I stopped at the Office of the District Ranger of the U.S. Forest Service in Kernville, California a Mr.