California Condor Eban Mcmillan 27 September 1963 I camped last night one mile west of the U.S. Forest Service San Joaquin Experimental Range Headquarters. Many horned Owls Called in the distance as well as several Screech Owls. The day broke hot - Calm and clear. Don Duncan resident Biologist at this range Station, although professing an interest in large birds, had seen no Condor and only the Odd Golden Eagle now and then. He does not think Condor have been over the Range here at O'Neills for at least three years. I stopped at the Fire Suppression Camp of the California State Forestry, four miles west of Coarsegold, but no one there even knew what a Condor was. At the State of California Division of Forestry Station at Raymond, Madera County, California, A Mr. Russell McNutt, one of the fireman stationed there, told me of hearing that a Mr. Wright, who's relief fire lookout man for Madera County had seen a Condor circling with a flock of buzzards over the lookout tower on Red Top Mountain that is located about two miles west of where the Experimental Range road turns off Highway 41. Russell McNutt called another lookout tower that is located to the Northwest of Raymond about five miles. The man at this lookout didn't know what a Condor was and after being told said he had only seen buzzards. Joe Cecil who lives east of Raymond four miles and who is well versed in outdoor lore, having been a professional Packer in Sequoia National Park for many years, during the Summer,-