California condor. Eben McMillan 9 October 1963 by Conservation Interests to Neutralize the Propaganda Continually being fed these people by those who have some personal interest at stake, Mrs. Albitre mentioned of allowing the Trail hound people to come in with their dogs who according to their information would soon rid her lands of any predatory mammals. Thus when her lambs continued to die these hound men, or persons, influenced her into thinking that birds such as Eagles or the like had to be responsible for the depredations for their dogs had cleared out all the mammalian predators. Trappers - Poisons and many others who would stand to gain by having Mrs. Albitre continue thinking Condor and Eagles, or Predators in General, were responsible for her problems had been working to see that she continued to think in these terms. She had been told that the scarcity of Deer in her area was due to Coyotes, Bobcats and Mountain Lions. No one had been talking to her that would tend to counteract the type of thinking these factions would instill in her mind. When leaving her place, she asked that I stop by again and discuss these matters more fully. Henry Bowen who operates a large Cattle Outfit at the headwaters of Poso Creek to the east of Blue Ridge Lookout in northern Kern County, told me he wouldn't know a Condor if he found one in his front yard. He said he has never paid attention to Condor or birds of any sort even though he was in the Glenville-Jack Ranch area as a young boy. He said that his father-in-law, Jeff Carter, had told him many years ago that Condor used to nest in the area around Tobias Peak before 1890. Henry Bowen said he would like to see Doe deer shot for he feels they will become a problem if left to multiply unchecked. He thinks deer hunters are a -