P.438 Tim Canyon Steep California Condor Eben Jochri\[illegible e 26 November 1963 Imm — until it was down now in the bottom of the canyon where they were working and when gaining altitude to set out of the canyon this bird had to pump its wings. The revealing point of this observation was when Mr. Dunlap said that they were so close to it that they could see its black beak and black head as it looked down and sideways in rising them up. This was ample evidence that this was the case of another Young Condor coming within easy gunshot of a human being. Mr. Dunlap then told us of the road building operation that is going on about ½ mile north of his camp where a company who have about 3000 acres of the wildlife refuge leased for oil exploration, a territory running all along the foothills just immediately under the west scarp- bment of higher rim as far north as Whiteacre peak and even beyond to the pothole area in the Agua Blanca Canyon have only until December 1, 1963 to complete assessment work that is supposed to be drilling operations. These people have obtained rights to pass up the road used by the Twilight Oil Company from the Iron gate near where we left our pickup, and then North [illegible] through the private property of the Twilight Oil Company to a spot under the scarp and at the boundary of the Condor Refuge. A D-8 Bulldozer belonging to a Mr. Warren of Pico had completed this road to the refuge boundary and was now waiting for permission from the Forest Service to continue on into the Refuge with the road so that a site could be constructed and a Drilling rig brought in and