California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 10 February 1964 at Kernville, Calif., who was in Mr. Clanton's Office when I dropped in, stated he had seen Six Condor over Isabella Lake last Wednesday—when I commenced to write this observation down Mr. Roof changed his mind and said it could not have been Wednesday for he was at another location on that date. He finally thought it was about 1 February that he saw the Six Condor near French Gulch on the West Side of Isabella Lake. I do not put too much credence on this observation for Mr. Roof first mentioned Wednesday as though he were sure of the date. Then when he was aware that a record was being made of this matter, his memory failed him. I arrived at the Winter Field Office of Mr. Ben Easley, Mr. Easley manages the Rodent-Predator and Pest Control Branch of the Kern County Agricultural Commissioners Office. He was not in when I arrived, but came in from overseeing a Gopher Poisoning operation about 1:15 P.M. He said that Pests were not important in his operations during the Winter months, but that the Spring and Summer Seasons were his most active seasons. These are the periods when Squirrel Poison and Insect Control Programs are carried out. This is also the period when Ben Easley hires crews of men, and probably attends to the wants of many more people than is the case during the Fall and Summer months. Ben Easley said that Rodent control programs were in force both before and after the Margaret Brown Condor was found. That at the Time Mrs. Dorothy Albite found this dead Condor, that a Mr. George Moore, of [illegible], Kern County California, was his representative in overseeing the crew that was applying Compound 1080 Poison on Potted barley. It was Mr. Moore's job to see that all Bukanafield 538