California Condor Eben McMillan 21 march, 1963 Dan and I packed the necessary supplies in my Pickup Truck and left for the East side of the San Joaquin Valley at 8:30 A.M. The Temperature was Moderate and high Cirrus Clouds veiled the Northwestern Sky as we rolled down the Palo Pinto Canyon, Noticing the upper Eagle on its nest and 6 deer in a canyon to the west of the Palo Pinto Cottonwoods. A Sheep Slaughtering operation was in Progress near the small Trees that stand in the South and East Quarter of the Crossroads of highways 41 and 33 in the Kettleman Plains. We stopped in Fresno to purchase a large luggage box, then drove out to the Fish and Game Headquarters on Shaw avenue, in East Fresno, to see Dave Sellock, but finding him in a Conference we drove on out 41 highway to a cafe that stands to the left of highway 41, about one mile past the 4 Corners where 41 and the road from Madera to Friant Cross. We chatted with the Lady there in hopes of getting information on who owned the Rangeland to the North of her place, for it was on those lands. May 24, 1959 that I saw 19 Condor feeding on a dead Calf about ½ mile west of highway 41, she hadn't seen condors. We drove on to The U.S. Forest Service, San Joaquin Experimental Range at O'neals, California where we found no one with information on Condor in that area. After chatting with two of the personnel at this place for an hour, he returned to 4 Corners and Took the road to Friant where we stopped for lunch in sight of the Friant Dam. It was here we saw our first Turkey vultures of the Day. Many of these birds seemed to be migrating northward along the low foothills of the Sierra Nevada Range. DVER.