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California Condor
Eben Mcmillan
10 October 1963
pass the Oak flat Lookout heading Northwest. If one stands on the
Railin outside the Oak Flat Lookout Tower and looks first Southeast,
and then Northwest, it is easy to make out a general fault line
in the Structure of the Sierra Nevada foothills along
this route that corresponds generally with the Granite Outcropping that
Commences to the South of White Wolf Pass on the Tejon Ranch
East of Arvin and Continues Northwestward at least to the area
about Raymond To the North of Highway 41 in Madera County. This
fault line follows on a line where most Condor Observations, by
residents of the West Slope of the Sierra Nevada Range, have been made.
Pose flats is not on this Fault.
It remains as a point of interest that Frazier Mountain Lookout
and Oak Flat Lookout record Condor going North much more than
they do going South. Could it be that Condor returning to the Sespe
River drainage in Ventura County could maintain from Points North
of the Caliente River drainage in Kern County would fly high enough
to make identification by people on the ground unlikely. Gib McKenzie
thinks they fly west from Tejon Canyon and continue directly
across the Lower San Joaquin Valley to the Temblor or San
Emigdio areas. Perhaps these Condor are heading West only to make
the turn around West Slope of Brush Mountain and Cerro Noroeste (imable),
cross San Emigdio Mesa and drop into the Sespe drainage without having
Crossed any mountain barriers more than Five Thousand feet in elevation.